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I had just happened to see him on the wall inside my house. It's the first I've seen in a long time. I've got to research on how to keep and breed fruitflies. I'm thinking my dad is likely to have a fit. We have a problem with flying fruit flies in the summer taking over the house. I'm not sure...

Since this one was found in the house I couldn't quite do that. But when I order a mantis it wouldn't work to order flies at the same time, in the same shipment? I'm just checking. I live about an hour from the nearest pet shop and I really hate ordering online due to high shipping prices. I...

He was about 4cm long. I'm going to have to order some flies when I get the #9's and/or the orchid mantids.

Sorry Yen, I find that confusing. The actual posted pic is the one I have. I'm not sure what pronotum is. I tried two small bugs that were flying around the light at night and a small moth (bigger than him though) I released him back into the house since the bugs aren't coming out with the cold...

I found this one on Wikipedia which says it's an Australian Praying Mantis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Austral...ying_Mantis.jpg

I've tried taking photos but my camera won't catch it. It's not good at focusing on small things. Everything is really blurry. I had looked up for Texas insects and the body outline looks like Litaneutria minor but it is solid brown instead of bark markings and is bigger. I could easily be...

I've thrown in two small moths that keep running around the lid of the cup passing in front of him and he hasn't made a move to snag one yet. They're not flying but running. I think I'm going to have to release him since he won't eat.

Thanks. I didn't see him claw at the side any. Up the stick and onto the ceiling. I can't see one of the 3 mealworms I had in there. Not sure if I just overlooked him or the mantis ate him. Such a tiny head, hard to imagine him eating a moth. I'll give it a few days and throw another one in.

I was walking up my stairs and I spot a small preying mantis on the wall ahead of me. I grab a cup that my roaches had been shipped to me in. I guess it's a 32 ounce cup. I put a few sticks in it and put in the mantis. I'm not sure what kind it is, about 4 cm and brown and I'm in central Texas...

I saw some photos of orchid mantids that mikhail posted on another site. I wasn't aware that there were so many types of mantids. I'm interested in getting some but want to read up and research everything before hand. Seem like such cool little things. From what I read on here is they're related...