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I made the proper container and now have the ootheca in the fridge. I will have to make sure to mist it often enough now. I may have another ootheca on the way as she has quite an appetite. 3 cricket over last night, and she is hunting the 2 I just put in there. I think the ootheca she laid...

So This all means I can refrigerate her ootheca until spring? Also, she does experience reduced photoperiods because she is in a south facing windowsill. I have a outcropping on an outer wall of my house with 3 windows in it, 2 at an angle (I forget what you call this structure) She doesn't get...

She does not have a spot. Someone asked me if she had a certain spot to see if it is a european and I told them she does not. you must have gotten confused.

I did a google image search for Chinese mantis and they look just like the one I have. So she is a Chinese.

But someone else stated that I could still give them a diapause. I would imagine it would be alright seeing as they live in Minnesota with it's frigid winters I also realized that I may have a bit of a placement issue. I have the kind of cage I have now heard is known as a "critter keeper" and...

So would I then super glue it to the lid of the container or just set it in the container? Does the container need to be ventilated or sealed? I plan to hatch it and once they are old enough to survive alright outside I plan to release most of them. So when would be a good time to hatch them...

About the middle. An hour north of the Twin Cities

I am not sure how common they are but I know they exist around here. The thing is I was never really looking for them and they hide well. There is the off chance that she stowed away on a plant that came on a truck to my store, but that would mean she would have had to get through the automatic...

She is about 4-6 inches long I think. No stripe down the side and I didn't see any white circle surrounded by black on her arms. Honestly she is pretty plain. All green with a yellowish underbelly on her abdomen. Her ootheca is kind of shaped like a rounded Isosceles Triangle with it mounded up...

Hmmmm, I have a fresh ootheca and my dad is always complaining about the fungus gnats coming out of the house plants.........

Since it is from Minnesota would it be a good idea to just stage it outside over the winter? Of course I would need to know what to do to help it survive. Praying mantids would be great for my mom's flower garden because she is often troubled by bugs they would find quite tasty. But maybe I...

I caught my praying mantis in early October here in MN. I saved her from a certain death situation at where I work, a Lowes store. I had thought she wasn't pregnant because she wasn't fat at all. Now it seems within the past day she laid her ootheca on the ventilated top of the cage! By the way...

I was told to introduce myself here so here it goes. I caught my first praying mantis this last sunday while working at Lowe's. It was on a flat bed cart in the middle of the garden center, but all the plants were gone so it was alone in a sea of concrete. It also would have died from frost...

I have one in there right now but it doesn't seem to be hungry. I caught it at work on sunday and fed it a medium cricket sunday night which it ate in less than 5 minutes with no leftovers lol. I read that you only need to feed it a couple crickets every other or every third day. Does that sound...

This time of year in Minnesota the invasive species of asian ladybugs start getting into the house. They bite by the way, and can draw blood. I am wondering if a praying mantis would eat one of these. I know that they are such a pest and so numerous because they taste bad so nothing preys on...