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This is a random thought of my brother and I but we live at a Lake during summertime, and are always complaining about the bugs. So since I raise Mantids he's asking if we could release a bunch out there next year. Im thinking buying a bunch of ooths and tying them along the canal and what...

So I'd never raised the species but bought 3 p.paradoxa from Rebecca a while ago. They were great and I ended up with 2 females oner male, but one female was really delayed and didnt get mated before he got eaten. Well the one that was mated has laid 4 ooths so far and one just hatched last...

I just got 3 ghosts and some fly pupae, but dont know how to feed them to my babies. Should they be flying around, and if so how do I get them to hatch? Theyre all just pupae, some bigger some smaller. Im sure my babies are very hungry, theyve spent the last few days in transit getting to me...

This is my 1st spring since raising Mantids that I dont have an ooth waiting to hatch.. All of the babies I brought with me from California to Colorado last summer died before maturing or being mated. So needless to say Im almost to the point of desperation.. And I even have a nifty new tank...

So, I didnt know what to ask for for Valentines day, so I asked for some new bugs. lol My boyfriend hated the fact that I kept them in jars last summer so he ordered me one of the nifty exo terra tanks. I think it's too big for just one mantid, and remembered someone talking about housing...

So Ive been on Mantids for the last few years and while I still want to raise them I'm thinking of raising some Butterflies this year. Anyone know where I can get some chrysalis, and anything besides the normal Monarch would be great!

Well I made it to Colorado safely! 221$ for 1124 miles. The "stranger" I paid to tow my stuff out was a really nice guy slow with the driving but nice, The rideshare person that found me on Craigslist ended up buying me 75$ in gas and he mostly rode with the guy driving the truck and trailer...

Hey Everybody!! It's been a while since Ive been on, I've had all kinds of stuff to handle. But here's the short version of it. All but 2 of my ooths hatched this year, so I had hundreds of babies. I released quite a few and only have 13 now. I kept quite a few more but they die off for one...

So I remember last year or the year before there was talk of lots of local bug and reptile shows, but with my hand injury and all I didn't get to any! I'm wondering if anyone knows of any bug shows coming to CA? A buddy of mine said he went to a huge one years back out here, but I wouldn't...

I noticed as my 2nd ooth was hatching that not many of the babies are making it off the strings. They seem to be getting stuck and then just dry out and hang and die! And if they make it some of them still have ooth stuff stuck to their back feet are they're either stuck together or have just...

I have had a rough morning already, my darn car wouldnt start in time to move it before the darn street sweeper came! We finally got it moved and I was fuming about it outside when I just glanced at the huge aquarium I have 6 or so ooths in. I saw a baby and squeaked so loud my mom came running...

So yet again I have caught 2 widows rather than kill them. One is just huge, the other is quite a bit smaller but still healthy and a good size. Anyone want to trade them for a couple Mantids?? 11/1 update. She laid an egg!! This is just great <_< , Im gonna have to squish her and...

So I have a very nifty tank thats half glass half screened and it's too big for my room so I put a plant in it and put one of my Largest females in it the other day. She is huuuuuge people, like I overfed her but it's been that way for a week or more now so I think shes just fat with eggs. So...

Just thought Id share this, It's been Mantis Madness here in the Valley. Ive found 3 wild Mantids in the last week, a total of 5 in the last month, The first was a large male European at an auto parts place, then another one in the store room of the Halloween store Im opening, Then a small...

Well it happend. My 1st male was shedding to adult and apparently had a rough time. By the time I found him he was bent very oddly, and one of his big wings had gotten turned down and was wrapped around him the wrong way. frackin darn stupid bad sheds!!!! Poor guy couldnt even walk right without...

I found a nice fat black widow outside yesterday, Anyone want it? I can post a pic later tonight if theres any interest.

Im so stoked, my Stagmomantis Californicas are starting to develop their bud wings. 2 of em shed over the weekend and I can see these tiny little wings on em, I have 4 more that still need to catch up tho. Its so weird that they can be so different in sizes and they came from the same ooth. It...

Check out this little guyI hatched a while back. I heard somewhere the S. Californicas can be a color change species. So I'm trying an experiment, we died the raffia grass in the tanks of 3 mantids. So far from the same ooth I have about 9 greenies, and 7 or 8 or so that are all different. Some...

Just had to vent about this somewhere. So Im on my way to work today, and I only made it 3 blocks to the light and my car died. I was in the turning lane right in front of a school and had to keep flagging people to go around me. I tried and tried to get it restarted and then the low fuel light...

So I have a bunch of canning jars right now that my nymphs and Mantids at their various stages are in and most of them have screen for a lid. But, Some are still on fruit flies so since the little buggers can get through the screen my mom suggested that I use saran wrap for a day or so till we...