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Well it's like I said, I didn't measure it. It was a guesstimate but it was bigger than any other mantid I have ever seen. I realise I could be off by as much as maybe an inch & a half but I'm telling you now it was longer than my outstretched hand ( lengthwise obviously). I just put it out...

Whatever you say man.

lol, rick I knew that would come up. I understand where you're coming from but I'm a big guy. I was big back then too. Meat was cheap when I was growing up I suppose. In all seriousness though I don't think that was the case. As I said, I have been interested in insects most of my life & in...

I was under the impression that chinese only got to be about 5 or 6 inches long which is big for any insect but perhaps that's a Standard not a maximum possible. In any case I distinctly remember how brutish it was.

Well in my introduction I made a referance to a big mantis I found a long time ago as a teenager. I was probably 14 at the time. Now I know all species have their mutants & freaks & this was surely one of them. It was a chinese mantis, female I think, but it must have been a full 8"...

Thanks! I thought he deserved an appropriate name since their such viscious little critters.

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I find that when i put crickets in my mantis' cage, he seldom waits to ambush it. Instead he'll charge right at it & strike it. I don't think he's hungry because I give him two feeder crickets a day. I'm just wondering if it's normal to charge his dinner, is he exceptionally aggresive, or is...

Hey guys & gals, Doktorhook here & of course I'm new to the forum. I actually ran across it a few days back when I had caught a wild mantid in my front yard ( chinese). I was wanting to keep him as a pet but around my house we have alot of ants & they tend to keep the other insects...