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I have no doubt that the people taking care of her will have difficulty so I doubt she'll be fed less. But here in France where I live, we have 5 weeks mandatory vacation. So we're going for 4 weeks. I am not sure she could go that long. What do you think?

I like Mr Bug Man, he has a cool acronym! :)

So it says one is too big. I'm having this problem everywhere so I'm gonna ask my dh computer programmer to help me with it tonight and see if. I can't make this thing sendable . Works on fb but nowhere else.

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Ok so life got the best of me and I forgot the photos. But here they are. A couple are tiny bit blurry which makes me sad because they're awesome. But I'll be sure to post a good one too. So the orchid mantis is called Madame Orchidée after the opera Madame Butterfly. The Jungle nymph's are...

Thanks so much for this info! Because the breeders that we got her from said 2 to 30 prey 2 to 3 times per week. Scared of under feeding I was aiming for 3 prey 3 times per week. 🤦 So I'll definitely cut back. Is there anything I can do to help her if she is egg bound? Also How to know if she...

I have tons LOL! i could overwhelm you. I have to head out in a few but when i'm back i'll try to connect form my phone so i can post them here :) thanks for being interested :)

Hi Everyone, My hubs and I will be heading on vacation for a month. I intend to have someone living in our home while we are gone. But this person doesn't have any experience with mantises. I have an adult orchid mantis and i feed her normally 3 flies 3 times per week. I'd like to train her...

Hi everyone, I never did introduce myself when I first stumbled upon your forum in a panic. I am brand new to insect keeping having started only in march on a whim. Hubs and I went to an aquarium and reptile show and while there we first met the orchid mantises and phasmes-jungle nymphes. I...

ooh that's interesting. So overfeeding can contribute to being egg bound?

thank you! I read this on a website of a breeder somewhere and it really concerned me. I'm still sad about the loss of my little male though. He was such a cute guy! But thanks for letting me know my girl will be ok :)

Thanks so much for the encouragement! I'm still upset about it lol. Madame Orchidée, that's the females name, seems unfazed. 😉😜. He did indeed make it too adulthood and lived a couple of months as an adult. It's my first time keeping mantises. Nature is so amazing and beautiful but at the dame...

Ok. Thank you for these reassurances because the internet says a lot of stuff. And you never know who is right. One site said eating the male is bad for her one said it's good nutrition. How to know where the truth is. Have you kept females unbred?

Hi Everyone, If you happened to see my previous post, my male orchid mantis somehow managed to escape his side of the terrarium and got into the female's side while i was cleaning house. I came back a few hours later to find nothing left of him but 2 wings! I'm very upset. But now i'm also...

Well i have bad news about the orchids. Madame Orchidée, my female with the crumpled wings is fine. But somehow, her little male partner whom I genuinely cared about, managed to escape from his side of the terrarium into her side sometime after I sprayed them this morning. And after i got done...

well, since my reply to Hi Azziza22, Since my comment to your reply to me has never shown up I am just going to repeat it here. I just wanted to thank you so much for your reassurance! I really did do my best for her but since i'm new to mantises i have NO idea what i'm doing lol so it is...

this is very strange indeed. I cannot see my reply to you in this thread and neither can you but it shows in my history of posts in my account activity. So odd. Has anyone else had this problem?

Hi, this is very strange. I replied yesterday to your comment and I can see my comment in the my content tab, but not here in the conversation. Can anyone else see my response in this thread? Tnx! Mélannie

Hi. Thanks sooo much for replying. I think I didn't have the option before because I'm new and hadn't yet been approved by admin. So here are the photos. Her molt just was totally crazy. I had her enclosure all prepared for her with netting on one wall, textured leaves with lots of space...

Hi, I'm so happy to have found this forum. I'm new to insect keeping and my first ever orchid mantis has just come out of molting. I am interested about what was being said about dehydration regarding the crumpled wings. My girl gets sprayed minimum 2 times per day and she drinks almost every...