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Hey! I usually keep them in containers till they can eat small crickets, just because they can be a bit hard to keep track of. I usually hand feed them flies and grasshoppers during the summer months. I wanted to reply back to you since it's been. A few days, but I can give you more details if...

I can't see a response to my comment, but I did see the post before mine with the pictures

She looks fine, the only reason I've had to hand feed was when their front legs were damaged while molting. I'm not sure about orchids, but the other female mantises I've kept in the past rarely if ever fly because they're usually too heavy. I usually don't mess with them from the time they...

You'll have to let me know! I went out for the 2021 brood but got there a bit too early to really hear the chaos. Periodical cicadas are only here in the USA. They're really cool bugs! We don't get too many cicadas in Utah so it always makes my day when I hear them screaming to find love. I hope...

The periodical cicada broods are numbered, there's a dozen or so different broods which is why we can have multiple broods emerging only a few years after the last. The ones emerging this year will be brood 13 (XIII Northern Illinois Brood) & 19 (XIX Great Southern Brood). There won't be another...

I've noticed females (at least with h. Majuscula) primarily drink water, the males will right after molting but not really any other time but every lady I've gotten absolutely loves water. I've actually been able pretty accurately sex them as nymphs by their water drinking habits. I usually...

It's a mold inhibitor. You want to load it with "good fungus" i.e. yeast so it can outcomepete any potentially bad mold in the air that would cause damage to the culture. I usually buy fleischmann's active dry yeast 4 oz from the grocery store since you don't need very much and keep it in the...

Here's the recipe I usually make they all seem to do pretty good. I found this recipe online somewhere but It bugged me that it was so variable when using volume over weight. I buy all the stuff at WinCo (if there's one near you) usually in their bulk food section (since they have everything...

Hi, my name's Brandy I have loved all insects for as long as I can remember, but mantids have always had a special place in my heart. I've only had a few mantid species over the past 4 years but I'm hoping to continue having them around for the foreseeable future. I had a lot of problems with my...