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So..How come I've had a few emerge if they haven't gone through diapause?? Not sure what "suspended animation" means. :unsure: The ooths are attached to the screen on the top of their cage...would I just gently pull them off?

I've got Europeans...I'm in Vancouver Wa, so I assume my humidity is pretty decent. I had thought about them being wet in the wild, especially here, and I suppose the major difference is the wind/drying factor and maybe sunlight to keep them from molding??? As for my setup, they are in a tall 7...

I mist the cage about every other day...sometimes every 3 if I get busy...would that make them die upon emerging? Or they were the only 3 with half a chance, and didn't make it? The rest are lost causes? Should I be spraying them directly? I'd read no, but if spraying the inside of the tank...

I have 6 fertile ooths and the first one that one of my females laid about 2 months ago appears to have hatched a few nymphs last night....but they died. They are suspended from their ooth, but never really unfolded. What does this mean? This is my first "homegrown" ooth to hatch, and the ooth I...

Yup, he WAS a male. :( He eventually got off, so I took him out and tried the table top approach. He would move towards her, make a futile attempt to climb on...then get off. So I put him away for the night. I got him back out this morning and put him back in the females cage after I had...

We found another female adult Religiosa today, and I decided to try my hand at getting her to mate with one of my males. I put both of them in his cage and she immediately snatched his grasshopper and began eating. The male moved over and hopped on her back, but just sat there as she ate. I read...

Hi Vincent! I'm in Vancouver, and have found 4 mantises in a grass field across from our house during the past couple weeks without much searching. One of my female nymphs just had her final molt last night and is now adult. So cool to see!! I have 2 adult males - may be able to part with one if...

Welcome! I just moved north, from San Leandro. Missing my beautiful bay - thanks for the reminder. :) I also purchased 2 ooths from an OSH there in the Bay area last year. When I got home, I took the lid off, and set the little container on my TV cabinet to give them some air until I took...

Yes, it does look as though that will be the case. One other thing - I just realized I may have misread your comment about keeping them separate. Is it okay to have males together and females together? Or should each mantis be in its own enclosure?

Thank you Laura! The tank is a tall glass Exo Terra, so they have plenty of room to molt. Yay! Both the females have 2 tiny wing buds, and look almost as big as the male, just a little plumper, so I suppose I'll assume they are subadult and have one more molt before adulthood.

Hello everyone! I am Amanda, an elementary nature science teacher and a wanna-be entomologist :) in Southwest Washington state. (Near Oregon border) I have always been fascinated by mantids, but never came across them in the wild where I have lived despite my intense explorations. We have a...