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Some of you may have seen the heat waves that have been hitting the Midwest USA. Apparently, when I went away for a weekend, my A/C went out and the bug room soared to 115 degrees.... Everything died but one hidden ooth under a leaf, and the java shield male. He's doing well, enjoying an...

This is almost irony. I have a java shield male and female--the male molted easily, no problems, happily an adult now. My female had a mishap early on in which she lost two back legs. I nursed her carefully through two more molts until she got her legs back. She was due for her molt to adult...

I have an adult Chinese female. Recently, I mated her multiple times and managed to get two ooths. (3 times before the first ooth, 2 times before the second ooth) In an unfortunate ah....mishap :rolleyes: she ate her companions and has been a widow for the last two weeks or so. I did...

Just an update after the "hot and bothered" thread. That particular male managed to do the same Houdini trick AGAIN and mated a second time with my female (so she's been mated with 3x times now) Unfortunately for Houdini Jr. he chose to perform is second act right before I went to work, and...

With two males and one female, I had my first mating about a week ago and intended to wait another week or so before introducing the other male. Well, apparently my ... frustrated....other male decided to take matters into his own hands, er, raptor claws. <_< The enclosure is separated...

Heh, I did a boo-boo. Had to share because it's a funny story. :) It's been more than three years since I've been in the mantis hobby, and probably longer than that since I've had nymphs in the house smaller than L3. Recently, I bought a Java Shield nymph and a fruit fly culture to keep...

Success! haha. I've got two adult males and one adult female Chinese. They've been adult for several weeks now, so I started attempting to mate them. Using Rick's method, I might add. :) Both males quite happy to go for her every time, but she kept freaking out whenever they got too close or...

I am convinced now that the other mantids I've raised were Religosa and not Chinese, even if I thought they were the latter. Today, my female Chinese molted to subadult. When I checked on her to see how it was progressing, I sat there, mouth open, dumbfounded at how Freaking Huge! she is...

It's taken me the last week to finish setting up my terrarium for my three Chinese nymphs. I wanted to make sure that it looked nice, but was practical. Was comfortable enough for small mantids and for them as they grow. And would allow me to maintain humidity, moisture, a decent cricket and...

I've had my Chinese nymps (L4) for about a week now--three of them to be exact. (Yay GreenOasis) I had thought I knew their personalities. One male is bold for his size, and the other more cautious but just as aggressive. My lone female, Iris, was very timid and ran away from every insect I...

Hello y'all. :) I've been raising mantids for a long time (mostly Chinese and Religiosa) but never stumbled upon this forum until now. I'm probably going to need it, since I'm going to try this time around to raise multiple mantids, in a slightly different set-up than I've used before... I...