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We are located in southern Ohio. And can anyone tell if it is a male or female?

My daughter found a baby praying mantis and we have been keeping it and feeding it flightless fruit flies. It just molted and went from a reddish brown to more of a light green with brown accents. I have included photos in the hopes that someone can help me ID the kind of mantid we have. The...

Worked out a wonderful trade with Perry. The mantids arrived safely, quickly, and with full bellies. I'm very pleased. Thank you.

Oh... I guess you're probably right. It's just that I've never seen one around the house ever before and it just happens that a few weeks after I released a supposed dead one near the house, I see one climbing on my back porch. I didn't even have to be looking for this one. I thought it was more...

Ok this is crazy. She wasn't dead. I thought she was when I came home and found her on her back with her legs curled in at the bottom of the cup. So I took her outside and dumped her over the fence into my neighbor's bushes. Today I came home and let my dogs out into the backyard to see her...

Those are really nice pictures and great explainations. I enjoyed reading it. Thanks for sharing.

The one I found outside would 'claw' at the sides of the cup in a very fast, like a digging, motion. Eventually she settled in and even laid an ooth for me. I think it's exactly as Rick said. She just wasn't used to a cage, but eventually she got real used to hanging out at the top of the cup...

I have taken the ooth and taped the attached screen to the lid of a 32oz deli cup. I put about 6 tiny pinholes for air in the lid, gave it a mist, and put it outside. Also, the female carolina who laid the ooth has died. I didn't figure she had much time left. I'm just glad she had one more...

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She finally laid an ooth. I suspect it might be her last though. It was smaller than I expected it to be, but I really have nothing to compare it to. The following photos are cell phone quality. The second one is taken with a penny for size reference. I'm now trying to figure out what I want to...

I finally got some good pictures. I took her out and placed her on a tree we have in the house. These turned out the best so far.

I've heard of certain millipedes being able to secrete a chemical containing cyanide when threatened, but I haven't heard of a moth doing that.

Why is it so hard to take pictures of these guys? I wish I knew someone with a macro camera. Btw... I like that housing.

I'm not quite sure how to gauge her comfort level, but she has enough room to hang from the top. I'd say the top is about one and a half times her length. So She doesn't have a lot of room to walk, but there's some. I just wasn't sure how much room or clearance they need when laying an ooth.

If she does have an ooth or two left in her, will she be able to lay it in the cup or will she need more space than that?

What makes it more amazing is that mantids aren't designed to make it though the winter, at least the way I understand it. They're not supposed to. I've read plenty of articles that talk about how mantids usually die with the first frost. I guess this one made it past that, but I don't expect...

Since I couldn't seem to get a good picture from my camera, I thought I'd give my camera phone a try. The resolution is poor, but the picture is better in some ways. Also, what size container should I be housing her in? I have her in a 32oz deli cup right now with fiberglass screening over...

This picture isn't really that good. I took a few and this was the only one that wasn't blurry. However, this one appears too whitewashed. Anyway, you can start getting an idea. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to take another picture, but I'll work to get another one by tomorrow.

I've started looking around online and I'm pretty sure what I've found is a female Carolina Mantis. This is my personal attempt at identifying it before I get it home for pictures.

I didn't realize that Mantids weren't native to the UK. That makes it more interesting that collecting, raising, and breeding mantids is such a big hobby there. At least it seems bigger there than it is here in the States.