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lol :] It's OK. People from the mainland always think we still live in grass hut villages. ^^; A little update- Sam just died a few days ago. :[ But he did live a week and a half more than I expected. During his last week he was doing well; climbing around the top of his cage and eating well...

well i mean, they don't spray bushes for mosquito control

!!!!!! My mantis before this one acted the same way. I was wondering what was that white thing attached to his butt when i found him dead. It could have been a spermatophore. It makes sense now. It's true that pesticides aren't used in hawaii. My mantis now is still surviving. I gave him...

Yes I caught all of them as adults.

I catch my grasshoppers from an empty lot close to my house. I could be pesticides, but the other grasshoppers i caught seem alert and show no signs of sickness.

Hi everyone. I think a sickness is going around my house. My first Chinese mantis died, but shortly after the second one passed away too. What convinced me is that, my last mantis is showing the same symptoms. It all started when black dots formed on his eyes. Also, the mantis before had...

Ahh, that would make sense. We've only ever seen Chinese around, but there are probably different species on other islands. Of course we'd like to see more mantids in the wild (especially other variations)! Here's another one of Emi. She had two orange dots on each of her raptorial legs (four...

Yup, all of them were caught locally. I found two of them on the exact same window at my house, another we found on campus, and the last at our dojo. They are pretty uncommon here so we scoop them up wherever we can find them. Here's Piccolo and Emi hanging out on some orchids. .

Wow, that's pretty freaking cool. I like the perspective in the second shot.

Hi there, it's my first time posting here. My boyfriend and I share this account and want to share a few pictures of our mantids. :) Our first Chinese mantis, Sam. Died last month :[ He was blind in one eye and had a gimpy antenna. Plus most of his feet didn't work. But we loved him still...