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most mantids do fine at room temperature, just keep them in a warm part of your house, luckily for me in my house thats my bedroom :P a few mantids do need extra heat though, such as Gongylus Gongylodes, Orchid Mantids, Blepharopsis Mendica and Idolomantis Diabolica, as well as any Deroplatys...

i've got a large female nymph and two males, they're an awesome species! as soon as i get the chance im going to get plenty of ooths out of them :P

i have a ghost mantid who lost the right forearm to another larger ghost, so much for one of the most communal species :P i belive she was L3 or L4 when she lost it, the next molt took almost 2 months to come around which as you might know is a very long time for molts after the molt there...

i should be fine for getting the beetle, as its a UK based seller im buying from so i don't think regulations will be a problem, and those links helped alot, thanks!

anyone have any expierience with this beetle, or any other scarab beetles? looking into getting one and information about keeping them is hard to find... all i've found so far is that the larva feed on rotting woot and the adults feed on fruit, otherwise i havn't been able to find anything :/...

wow... a 2.5 meter long scorpion... that would be a rather scary site too see today :P

3 mid-size Deroplatys Lobata from Rob, great deal on mantids, dead cheap posting that arrived next day, great service, 5 Stars :D

thats why this thread is in the "other discussions" (a.k.a. Off-topic) forum isn't it? ;)

DoD = Day of Defeat, WWII shooter based on Valves source engine also, massive HL fan here and fan of everything Valve makes to be honest :P yes, i did catch the brain and i personally prefer Poisinous Headcrabbus which goes by the common name of "pain in the butt" :P who else is stoked for...

she's going to lay an ootheca or more anyway, might as well try to make them fertile :P and as other people have stated if she had been eating alot (you said you fed her every day) then she would need to get rid of the weight before molting, if the abdomen is heavy then it can bend when the...

i've found molting to be pretty proportional to various effects... more food and hotter enviroments definately speeds up molting, unfortunatly it also has the effect of shortening a mantids already (in my opinion) too short life span

used to play WoW a heck of alot, was in one of the top guilds in europe for a while but eventually got bored of the game, and now play Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 for hours on end instead :D and the Halo's are good, but pretty standard games imo, i don't see the fuss everyone makes...

i wish i could collect mantids... no native species here in the UK, and the only place i go on holiday too is Majorca, and im not sure that there's any native species there as its a relatively small island

heya, as i said in a PM i'd like to buy some of the Deroplatys Lobata, but could you please explain what your listing means? i don't quite understand what the "trio A - 1 1/4" males/female" means exactly

i've now got alot of very fat maggots getting ready to pupate and the right containers set up, thanks alot for the help guys! got a few mantids that are now far too large for fruit flys and it was becoming a big pain making sure they was properly fed, no good feeding a sub-adult budwing females...

i forgot to ask actually, whats the best food to gut-load flys with for mantids? and also, i know refidgerating slows down fruit flys. but how do i deal with getting the larger, much quicker house flys from the container into the mantids tank without any/too many escapes?

everyone i know here in the UK calls them "Indian Rose Mantids" but i definately think that "Violin Mantis/Wandering Violin Mantis" is a much better common name

unfortunately it might be a little hard for him to buy ghosts from the sites The_Asa recomended, as he is in the UK lol :P good uk sites included http://www.insectstore.com/, http://www.bugzuk.com/, http://www.virginiacheeseman.co.uk/, and...

ant's are basically wasps without wings, and as such still have a rather nasty sting, nearly all mantids are smart enough to know a poisinous insect when they see it and usually hold the pray so its unable to sting, however there is always the chance that something could happen, you wouldn't...

maggots are handy little creatures, as they only eat dead flesh, was used years ago in hospitals to clean wounds like burns as they'd eat all the decaying and damaged flesh and leave the good healthy stuff, so no they're not picky eaters, any dead meat will do, and i assume that you guys don't...