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Alright, thank you for your input! He had a wonky leg the last molt too and it seemed to sort of straighten out a bit after a while. He only molted yesterday afternoon after all so maybe it'll get better with time. Just one more question: could this be from an enclosure that's too small? He's...

I have a wide strip of paper towel on the side of the enclosure that he likes to climb up and down, but I don't think it would help at the top because his legs are so curled that his feet won't even touch whatever surface he's on. I'll attach the best picture I could get showing his poor little...

So all of my mantises just stopped molting at L4, except for one. Weird, right? Well I've accepted that they'll just be small forever, but Murdoc has continued to molt and is now a beautiful subadult. It took me a while to notice his wing buds but they're definitely there and it is soooo cool...

I've lived in Washington my whole life and I've never seen one here... and trust me, I've looked, hah. Maybe in eastern WA, since the temps get so high over there, but the humidity is so low, I wouldn't expect there to be any mantises. Apparently, though, after doing a little research, mantises...

Thanks for the advice C:

One of my Chinese molted to L5 last week, probably 5 or 6 days ago. None of the others from the same ooth have molted yet. They've been walking kind of awkwardly like they always do when they're going to molt, and it makes me really reluctant to feed them for worry they'll start to molt and get...

Issue resolved. It grabbed onto the jar, gave itself a tug, and slid right out. Perfect molt, and almost 3 inches long now! Thank you for your concern, angelofdeathzz. I'm really kind of paranoid about my bugs, haha.

My little Murdoc/Minerva began molting just as I sat the jar on the kitchen table for feeding. It's been at it for about 25 minutes or a little more, and it's mostly free, just that the last bit of the abdomen isn't free yet. I've been misting much more lately because I knew they'd all be...

It's been a long time since I've posted here! Our summer ritual of hosting exchange students was a bit more hectic than usual this year, and the mantises have been really keeping me busy as well. I kept seventeen of them in the end. One of them died, and shortly after I found a beautiful...

That face in the last photo is just priceless, I love it! Such a fateful meeting, too. Congrats on the find!

Wow... I would be tearing my hair out and crying in a dark room if I were you. Sucks so much to lose a pet, even more when the loss is multiplied like that. You have my condolences.

Ah, ok, thank you for the insight! I'm always careful about checking for molting even though they're only a week old and they're eating like crazy. I'll try misting around them, and maybe misting higher up too, since that seems to bug them a lot less. And I'm really not entirely sure just what...

I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the Health forum. The heat spiked overnight here in Washington and because I've never raised mantids before, I'm just a wee bit paranoid. It's been around 80-90 inside with every fan in the house on full blast. I've been misting the babies (Chinese...

Haha, no problem, Tomato. That's an amazing collection and some awesome finds! I really want to go bug-hunting when I visit/move there... all my Japanese friends think I'm crazy, haha, and my American friends call me 'the bug lady'. Did you ever see one of those giant Japanese centipedes while...

Awesome, thank you Rick! And thank you everyone for your welcomes. No, I'm not doing JET, but the only reason for that is that I don't know if I would be placed in the middle of rural nowhere or, where I want to be, in a big city. If you could pick where you go, I would be so up for it! I do...

I may be wrong, but this looks like an Alligator Lizard to me. That might be a layman's term for a kind of skink, but I had a lizard that looked exactly like that that some kid found in his yard and gave to me. They're pretty fun little lizards, if that's what you've got. I had mine for around...

I didn't make an introduction thread until just now because... well, joining the forum was a sort of emergency move for me, haha. I'm a first time momma of around 100 possibly Chinese, possibly Giant Asian mantids. Please, call me Tikki, and it's nice to meet you all! I live in the northwest...

Ah, I see. I read somewhere they're supposed to be fed right after hatching. Thanks for your answers, I'll transfer them back to their jars, give them a mist and try again tomorrow.

This is the first time I've ever had mantids. They hatched a few hours ago, and I rushed to my local Petco for fruit flies, because I didn't think they would hatch for another week or so. They're either Chinese or Giant Asian mantids, but when they hatched, they weren't cannibalistic. They were...