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Hi, Thanks for the advice. I think I'll let her make up her own mind. I was hoping she might like it because she has an injury on her face where it appears to be chipped on the lower right bottom side and softer food would probably be less detrimental in terms of being less likely to result in...

Hi, I am a newbie and was wondering if i can give a caterpillar of the spotted tussock moth (lophocampa maculata) to my mantis to eat? I've never given her a caterpillar before but found one in my yard today and was hoping? Here is a link to a picture and some info...

Nope, nary a one in the yard, but the one i kept now has an absolutely gorgeous set of wings that are sea foam green in color (along the bottom edge).

Well, I posted this under a different thread a couple of weeks ago but my mantis definitely underwent a behavior change when my boyfriend blew marijuana smoke on him. He got agitated and jumped on me from several feet away. Before that he had never tried to jump anywhere at all!

Well my boyfriend blew some pot smoke on my mantis and he launched himself towards me from two feet away, something he never did before and hasn't since. No more marijuana for him! Startled the heck out me!

Wow, I hope I can catch my chinese in the act. Every other molt was fait accompli by the time i checked on him. Well, aside from the last one where he fell and i had to rescue him from a tangle of sticks on the bottom of his cage. Luckily he was fine afterwards. I didn't know at the time how...

Hi Frank, I'm new here as well but I can share the way I got the fruit flies to my nymphs. First off the enclosure I was using was an extra large brandy snifter with a top I made out of window screen. I made a trap for the flies in my kitchen out of a jar with a little banana in the bottom...

Hello Everyone, My name is Djenna( silent D) and I am new to the Mantid hobby. I have one lone Chinese mantis which I hatched from an ootheca I purchased at Long's Drugstore in the garden dep't. I had the egg case in my yard for almost two months without seeing any results so one day a friend...