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I was at Bugfest also (good to meet Rick and Perry!), I set up the tarantula and scorpion exhibits about two floors up from where they were. Since I don't live in the area, I stored all my animals at the museum Saturday night . When I returned Sunday to get them, the staff member who helped me...

Thanks Asa! I'm also feeding them the larger fruit flies (which are small for these nymphs but not too small to be eaten) and green bottle flies. I have crickets and cockroaches as well, but I'm told these are a species (the Texs unicorns) that prefer flying insects. Wade

Does anybody else use meal moths (Pyralis farinalis) as feeders? These things have infested my cockroach and mealworm bins and the moths can be found all over my animal room. Mantid nymphs that are at least an 3/4 of an inch long seem to like them. When I need to feed, I just get out the old...

Yen and Andy- Thanks! Orin- Although I have them together now, I think I am going to split them up. IF they all make it to adulthood, and IF I get males and females AND if I actually suceed in breeding them, I will problay attempt some more serious communal rearing! However, that's a lot of...

I just recieved some of Yen's Texas unicorns, and am curious about this also! I have some screen mantid cages I made from aluminum window screen, approximately 18" tall and 8" in diameter (they're round). They're all screen except for the top and bottom. Would these be suitable for 4 nymphs...

How big of a hole are we talking here? Big enough to pass a feeder insect through, correct? Although I've kept a few mantids, I'm not up up date on the current methods, so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding the concept, but I've found that the best thing for making a hole (up to 1/2" diameter)...

Hi All! I'm new here! Although I've kept a variety of mantid species in the past, right now I have...zero mantids :( , however I plan on aquiring some soon. I do keep a variety of other insects, arachnids and myriapods as well as some herps. I'm in Richmond, VA USA Wade