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Nope, not getting frass-faced - happily nomming his Christmas dinner right here at home! Maybe I should have shared that Kahlua milkshake my mom made last night.

Wow, my other male mantis eats way more. Huh. Well, anyway, thank you, everyone! I think the crisis is over. :D

Oooooh, he nommed a few bites of that fly! It's dead now, with one wing and a chunk of abdomen gone! So if it's a male, then I should expect this sort of eating pattern from now on?

Thanks. :) What's frass? The only non-feeder bugs I find in my room are tiny spiders on the walls, giant crickets with huge creepy legs that can't get into the cage, and the very occasional silverfish in a box in my closet or under the bed. I used to find tiny flying insects that I think have...

So I left the mantis fly-less for a couple days, and tonight I gave it one fly. It's been a couple hours so far.

It's possible - I didn't count how many I added - but the mantid's abdomen stayed flat. Maybe it did eat a little of that first fly I mentioned in the OP.

...And another poo sighting. How come it's pooping after two weeks of not eating?

Humidity is a bit over 70%, and if mantis poo is 1-2mm long and dark brown, then we have a sighting.

I released all the flies in its enclosure outside, except for one slowpoke missing a wing. I stabbed this one on a toothpick and offered it to the mantis; it wasn't interested, even after a good minute of trying. I cleaned out the enclosure and replaced the eco-complete with paper towels and the...

I've never actually seen a mantis drink, and I've owned a total of four. I haven't seen poo, but the substrate is coconut husk, so I wouldn't be able to see it anyway. It's late now, but tomorrow I'll release all the flies outside and put down paper towels so I can watch for poo. I did try...

I haven't checked its gender yet. I can't see the abdomen very well because it's so flat right now. I guess I'll just keep waiting - as long as it's acting normal, there's really nothing to diagnose anyway... Thanks, folks.

My ghost mantis went without food for probably two weeks due to a ridiculously hard time getting ahold of flies. I did offer it crickets, which it has occasionally eaten in the past, but it didn't work. It had its adult molt during this time, too. I made sure to keep it well-watered, though...

Got it all fixed. Thanks for the recommendations, guys - hopefully the seller I chose will be better than those first two! And thanks for the heads-up about my mistake with SpiderPharm.

Thanks, guys! Does anyone know whether the shipping calculator in mantispets.com's checkout is calculating for Priority/2-day shipping? There's only one option when calculating, so I am hoping that's it.

Hi, I'm in dire need of bluebottles, ASAP. My last batch of houseflies died off, and my ghost just molted, grew 3x, and is hungry. I contacted SpiderPharm and got no response, and I'm hesitant to order from MantisPlace because they messed up both of my previous orders (wrong address, then forgot...

I've designed this critter keeper for the ghost mantis (which is still deli-cup-size), and I have a driftwood ledge for the mantis to hang under. It's not big enough for the African, though, which I guess is why it's using the top. I didn't know plastic would be hard for them to grip; I just...

My first African (I've been calling it an African because that's what the breeder called it) was bright green too, so I was surprised when this one stayed brown. I've been in the habit of using the name the breeder used for Hierodula multispina. She stocks Tenodora Aridifolia Sinensis as "Chinese."

My African (Hierodula multispina) just molted into adulthood! My previous African nymph didn't survive this molt due to a mistake on my part, so I'm pretty excited. I haven't cleaned the plastic because I don't want to disturb him too much right now, so the picture isn't great, but here it is:

Thanks! I tried searching the photo forums, but couldn't come up with what I needed. :D Time to celebrate - I didn't kill it before it grew up! Woohoo! It's my first experience with non-aquatic inverts (apart from childhood ant farms).

Thanks for the link - don't know how I missed that. :blush: It's definitely a male - 8 body segments and a blunted end, with the cup-thing going on. How about age, then? It really doesn't look like the one photo on the breeder site, and a Google Image search turns up... lots of different mantids.