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Have to hand feed a mantis that mismolted, his raptors are held off to the side of his body and he cannot grip with his left and barely with this right. He would drop a fly about 30-50 times per feeding and finally I decided to put something together to hold the fly for him, hopefully he'll be...

My mantis has some eye damage, not sure if anyone knows what might have caused it. Fly only diet so it's not damage from some other critter and there aren't other mantises in its enclosure. I know sometimes the eyes go black from what appears to be rubbing on the side of the enclosure, but in...

Anyone experience high cannibalism rates with their Blephs? I had 12 L1s shipped to me, 11 arrived, there was no trace of the 12th and must have been eaten completely. I had them shipped to my work and by the time I got home there were 10. The next morning there were 9! Note, this entire...

I have a bunch of these flies buzzing around my pile of spent malt and hops in the backyard (the waste products of beer brewing). My L3 Idolos are crazy for these things as the flies are quite restless and fly around a ton, they also have a very hovering type of flight pattern which seems to...

Two of my L5 Chinese mantis have a floppy abdomen. Basically, when they hang upside down, there is a crease right behind where their back legs meet their bodies. The abdomen hang straight down, and if they're facing face down towards the ground, the abdomen flops towards their head. Anyone...

I see some people have numbers after the species of mantis they have in their signature of the format x.x.x I'm guessing this is male.female.unknown perhaps? Or some other order or significance?

Here are three L4 Chinese, looking to try to determine their sex and see if I understand this segment counting thing. 1: I count 8 segments, so my guess is male. 2:one segment slightly hidden behind the leg, I count 8 (or maybe 9 if that last dot at the end is a segment?) so guess male again...

Had my first mismolt today. Noticed my final ghost molting to L4 this morning and when I got home saw him in the same position. Basically all four legs were stuck in the old skin. I freed them but they're all stiff and completely unusable, he can flail them all about, but can't bend any...

living together just fine...for now...

So I bought two ootheca and have been incubating them for a while. This week on Tuesday the first one hatched and yesterday the second one hatched. While the second one had approximately 50 mantids, all of which I released into my garden, the first one had approximately 110! Are these normal...

Hi, Just signed up today. One of my two ootheca hatched two days ago and last night I started to feed them fruit flies which were all greedily snatched up. Made me glad because I had read several stories of nymphs not eating at all and just dying off. I bought these to release into my garden...