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thanks for the warm welcome everyone! as for the habitat, i had the mantis in a small container, it did catch the fruit flies while it was in there. the guy who sold it to me even said to keep it in the container until it got bigger. but i just didnt like keeping it cramped in an unnatural...

yes, i crush the fruit flies right before i offer it to the mantis. i do this because she seems to be a sit and wait kind of predator, she wont actually go follow the fly to catch it. i wiggle the stick that the fruit fly is smeared on in front of her and she grabs it readily. the mantis tank...

hello everyone. i love this forum and i recently joined because i recently bought my first mantis. im so excited. i bought a baby mantis, not sure which instar it is in. is there a way to tell? it was sold to me as a creobroter gemmatus and it is about the length of one's fingernails and it is...