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O how horrible! but as my daughter would say, "That's natures way..."

:lol: I know your right! :lol: catching and observing an insect was part of our science curriculum...our next project...raising Triops...they only live nor more than 90 days...how attached can we get to a tadpole with a exoskeleton???? :lol:

well, we set our mantis free yesterday...we've had her for two molts, the last one left her with two beautiful wings...we had planned on keeping her. Letting her draw a mate, lay us an egg sac...but when I saw her beautiful wings it seemed as if she was longing to be out "there" beyong the...

whoa! she made it...this morning about 5am she molted, somehow she wasn't able to get back to the top of the cage. She hung onto the side but couldn't get a strong grip and began to slide slowly down the side. the end of her abdomen was resting on the bottom of the cage. This was too nerve...

ok...well thanks...here's hoping it won't be fatal...

yes, that's it...oh no some of the post don't sound promising...but then again some sound encouraging...

Hi, it's me again~ our mantis is molting again and again she has refused food for her fourth day...my worrie is her abdomen is hanging/folding in half as she hangs from the top of her cage...I had her walk onto my hand tonight and she is just dragging it like it's dead weight...it started...

So do you think it would be ok to feed her every other day? I was feeding her daily because I thought she needed it? didn't really know for sure what to do. I wouldn't really mind mating her except we have no male... ;)

Our "Big Boy" is now our "Goreous Gal" Mannie is now Madiline...we have a female...her last segment on her abdomen is long...from what I understand that would make her a girl...and she's a beauty! My girls want to mate her...I was a nervous wreck :unsure: with the molting could you imagine...

whoo hoo!! our mantis molted, a beautiful complete molt...I'm gonna take pics later. I went in and checked on it this morning about 7:00 and nothing, a little after 9:00 I checked on it again and saw what I thought was 'Mannie" dead on the bottom of the cage...oh no I was really heart broken...

Hi~ I new here and new to keeping mantis...we've had our mantis going on 3 weeks now...we found him outside, he's still a nymph. We fed him everyday a moth or grasshopper, he was a really good eater! About 5 days ago he bagan batting at his food rather than snatching and eating it. I read...