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Picked this up last week: Pretty neat. ;)

NEAT! http://www.mutantvehicle.com/mantis.htm

...I read this book when I was a kid, found it recently on Ebay, I created a little Ebook-type app so you can all share "manty the mantis": The installer is here: http://www.betatestforum.com/mtm/ It also has a little virtual mantis in there, I forgot to add his other two legs, but ya get the...

Greetings mr. Cricket! Have you seen my nice spinning disk? Why not get a closer look? You're getting sleepy...Verrrry sleepy... MUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Awww, Last night, I could tell Splinter was getting ready to molt, he wouldn't eat, he was moving like his skin was too tight, and climbed upside down "into the position", on the top of his tank. I made sure the tank was moist, and went to bed. When I got up to go to work, I saw he was just...

Howdy! I have a Chinese mantis that has a bad rear leg - it has gotten worse with each molt. it is now the last molt before adult, and that rear leg is curled like a "C". His other legs seem just fine...Any ideas as to what happened to that one leg?

After seeing the mouse video, I felt my little pink ninja now has the training nessessary to take on more mighty an adversary...the mighty MICROSOFT! Please Right click, "save target as" http://24.193.146.140:2600/Diary/sillymantis.WMV It's too bad I didn't start filming earlier, she was...

Howdy! I was wondering what you think would happen if ya fed a mantis liquid food dye. Do ya think it could possibly affect their color as they grow? *shrugs*

A few weeks ago, I went Ooth-huntin, and came back with a few Chinese Ooths. I stuck two in a tank , and didn't think much more about them. I misted them a few times, but then I read that they usualy require a diapause period, so i didn't think they would hatch. last night, I had the most...

She used to like to drink from a straw. :)

Girl verses mantis, who will win? I feel bad for the mantis. http://college.big-boys.com/articles/bugchick.html WARNING! This is not for the faint of heart, this video contains mantis-abuse!!!

Another friend emailed me these pics... Any idea what type it is?

It's called "Alien Insect: Praying Mantis" It was on the Discovery Channel, I believe. Very cool, it shows a mantis take down a mouse, a snake, and other things. It also shows a bunch of mantids that didn't quite make it... I did a websearch and came up with this link, which you can use to...

It seems that when I talk my mantids out, after awhile of "hanging out" they want to go back to their tanks. If left alone, they will often go back their by themselves! Maybe they feel safe there, or maybe they associate that area with getting fed...? :) One of mine just wanted to be on top...

A friend of mine had a chinese ooth hatch out yesterday,a bunch of little guys running all over and then, within an hour, they all died! temp was around 75-80, the humidy was ok, and it was ventilated. Any ideas what could have caused this? :(

Here are my current enclosures: A temporary "hatching" enclosure. (I can't wait till they hatch - I never raised this type before!) This is a funky tank with fun stuff for my Chinese mantis to crawl around in (he's in the upper-left, on the hand) This one cost about 20 bucks, and is...

On another site, I saw someone say that if you take an egg case, plop it in a container, and just spray the mantids once a day, you don't have to feed them, they will just eat each other, and you eventually will end up with one adult mantid (which you feed crickets) Is this true? :?:

I have heard that it is not only genetic reasons that cause the flies to be able to fly again, but that it also has to do with the temperature you keep them at. if you keep them cooler, they won't develop their ability to fly... (Perhaps it is just because cooler temps = lower reproductive...