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well, mantis passed away some time last night. here is a photo from this morning. so, we gave it one additional week, as i believe if we had not ‘rescued it’ and fed/watered it, it would have died last thursday. we enjoyed having it visit with us, though ‘paralyzed’, we enjoyed the interaction...

yes, ok, i had hoped it might have a bit more time. it is still with us today, but i believe it is now just barely hanging on. just about an hour ago it decided it did not want to ‘move it’s mouth’ any more for food, water or honey. seems to be shutting down. we gave it one extra week, i...

thanks for your response. i truly appreciate it. we are still caring for it and it is still eating and drinking. we had mantises six years ago, cared for 6 from hatch to death. we never had one to have paralyzed legs (the 4 back legs). toward the end of that interesting journey though we did...

thursday we found an adult mantis on our sidewalk. 2 things we noticed about this mantis… it’s back 4 legs were folded up underneath it, frozen, without use/movement. it’s wings were fully displayed. it was trying to drag itself along with it’s ‘elbows’. we brought it inside and have been trying...

thursday we found an adult mantis on our sidewalk. 2 things we noticed about this mantis… it’s back 4 legs were folded up underneath it, frozen, without use/movement. it’s wings were fully displayed. it was trying to drag itself along with it’s ‘elbows’. we brought it inside and have been trying...