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This is my first time keeping mantids. I originally bought a couple of egg cases hoping the mantids would take care of the bug population ravaging my garden. I kept ten of them, released the rest of them outside. They're a mixture of 7th/6th instar. One can clearly see wing buds in the older...

I have a 7th instar Chinese mantis which suffered a mismolt three days. I found her at the bottom of her cage, but she was almost completely out of her old skin and suffered minor damage to one of her legs. Other than her bum leg she looks completely fine. Her eyes are a different story. They...