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Hi, thanks for the reply. I have not seen a skin shed before from a mantis. I do have a bit of moss on one side of the container, I am wondering if it could have disintegrated into that? Phew, it's a relief to know that she is okay, and I think you are right, she must have already shed. B)

I'd taken out all the crickets though because I thought she was going to shed. Can they eat it themselves? The strangest thing now is that I put in some more crickets about half an hour ago and sat there watching - and she's eating one right now!!!! So very strange!! So either she's shed and...

She does seem a little bit larger, but I'd have expected to have found a shed skin in her home and I can't see anything. I've just given her some new branches and had a good look around in there, but no shed skin. I think I am just imagining that she's a bit larger because I'm looking too hard...

Hi Royz. Last place I lived in London was Twickenham, before that was Chiswick. I'm down in Devon at temporarily at the mo, but will be back there some time next year. I'm loving all the different types of mantis heads in people's avatars! :)

Here are a couple more photos. I just got her out to check on her and she is really full of energy, and was running up my arm really fast, so she's certainly not lethargic in any way and seems very bright. These pics show more clearly the colour she has changed to, which has only happened in...

That's great, thanks Laura, it's really helpful to hear from other mantis keepers. Great also to know what to expect next. I was wondering where she'd shed from and expected the top of the body section to lift off like a tarantula and for her to climb out, then thought that her head didn't...

Hi there. I found this forum recently whilst searching for information on shedding mantids. I've recently acquired a mantis for the first time that I've named Kiwi. She's lovely, and really fascinating in every way, though a bit of a worry at the moment as keeping a mantis is new to me, so...

Hi Laura. Thanks for the reply. Good to know that the lack of eating and the colour change all fits with the shedding possibility. Am worried about the abdomen though, it's really strange because when I first noticed a change in her eating behaviour and a little change in the colour, her...

Hi all. I'm new here and new to mantid keeping, though not a stranger to keeping other insects and exotics. I recently acquired a Sphodromantis Viridis, fairly small though large enough to accept small crickets rather than the pinhead crickets. I named her Kiwi. I've never seen a praying...