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    after molting, mantis wings crumpled and looking sick. help

    Don't know how long is long, but one antennea is 1/4 inch and 1 is about 1 1/2 inches long. Presume one was either damaged when it fell or a cricket got it befor I realized it should be separated... Well, it's 2 days now and "Manty" is still alive :D After talking with my partner, she asked...
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    after molting, mantis wings crumpled and looking sick. help

    Thanks, rick. Skin came off with a little misting. I spent several hours reading up on various things about mantids on this forum last night and learned a lot. Looks like the little guy definately had a bad molt, falling from the top of the cage where he usually hangs out...legs are deformed...
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    after molting, mantis wings crumpled and looking sick. help

    My wife and daughter, who have been raising a mantis, are away on a trip and I noticed this afternoon our wonderful mantis lying upside down on the bottom of our terrarium after moulting. They've been raising it for several months and it appears to have moulted with wings this time. However...
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