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Looking For: Stagmomantis limbata ootheca or nymphs. Feel free to message me if you are selling or know anyone who is.

I bought a Stagmomantis limbata ootheca off of Divipha a couple months back. Divipha was polite, quick to respond, and easy to deal with. They also kept meticulous notes on when the pair was bred and the date the ootheca was laid. In the last two weeks, the ooth hatched out a bunch of robust...

Seems like it is always hard to find mantis related stuff so I decided why not make some mantis related goodies myself. :whistling: Currently I'm working on an orchid mantis sculpture. Still need to paint it, but I think it coming along pretty nice and I thought I would share.

You loose track of a mantis on your desk only to find them sitting on your shoulder. You can take a mantis to the face without flinching. You see beautiful butterflies fluttering by some flowers and think, those would make a great snack for my bugs. The roaches/fruit flies/flies outnumber the...

For those that haven't seen yet, Photobucket is no longer allowing their images to be hosted on third-party sites unless you are willing to shell out $400 a year. Apparently this is rolling out and hitting heavy using users first, but unless something changes soon anything posted with image...

Some of you might remember a topic a posted a year back of one of my boy Stagmomantis carolina that skipped a shedding, resulting in a mini sized adult. Well, it just happened again only this time with a female Stagmomantis carolina. I was expecting Trumpet, one of my precious little ladies, to...

I got a electrically heated blanket type thing for my shoulder/neck a couple weeks back and last night I decided to see if my mantis Abyss needed some soothing stress relief too. I set it on the lowest setting which creates just the slightest bit of warmth and let her check it out. As soon has...

Why go to the mantises when you can have the mantises come to you?

I wanted to share some photos of my boy Aether who is a Stagmomantis carolina. The early portion of his life was fairly normal. He grew at the same rate as his siblings. When he should have been shedding to sub-adult however he instead shed to adulthood, skipping a shedding. In addition to being...

With the whole Zika virus scare going around a lot of areas are increasing the usage of large scale spraying of pesticides typically by trucks or aerial dumps. Often the spraying is done at dusk/night to "minimize" targeting other beneficial insects but some places also do them during the day...

I happened upon this adorable animated, mantid short the other day and wasn't sure if it had been posted on here yet. I figured i would share if not.

I normally raise up my nymphs for the first couple instars in communal setups before placing them in individual enclosures. Well today I went to separate a batch that is 3rd instar and I noticed something strange. At first I thought it was a nymph in the process of eating a sibling but when I...

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Don't forget to light a pumpkin in honor of our clawed friends or they will come and oothecae up your house. Happy Halloween Everyone!

A couple months back I made a trade with a member on Mantid Forum for some Stagmomantis Carolina ooths. It was my first time with the species so when the oothecae arrived I just sort of assumed they were indeed Stagmomantis carolina ooths. I've always been rather terrible at IDing critters I've...

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I thought I would share an abdomen deformity I ran across with my male Stagmomantis carolina. My little story begins when I picked out a male Stagmomantis carolina to keep from one of my ootheca hatchings. He was only a couple instars old at the time. I was planning to keep a few nymphs for pets...

My unfortunate mantis Serendipity was just attacked by a mantis 2-3 times her size. She was innocently hanging out on the outside of her net cage preenng after a meal when the attack occured. The nameless monster of a mantis snuck up right beside her before she knew it. When she spotted the...

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My Miomantis binotata Invoke passed away tonight. I was not expecting to loose her and the only thing I can think of is there was something on the fly she ate yesterday afternoon. I didn't see any signs of illness until I looked in on her tonight and saw her crumpled in her cage. She appeared...