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I think my adult mantis, Siri, is on his way out: over the weekend (I was away a total of 1 full day and I fed and misted him before I left and my roommate misted him while I was gone) he declined greatly. I came back home and one whole leg plus all his tarsi were brown/dead/non-functional. He...

My adult male H. patellifera has stopped hunting for himself for a couple of weeks or so now... I've taken to hand feeding him decapitated mealworms (which he'll only eat one of in a sitting). I've thrown several flies and moths into his enclosure, but he either just looks at them or strikes at...

My adult boy, Siri, has been very calm up until this point, sitting on my hand and going with me everywhere around the apartment without even a wing flick. This last Monday he took his first short flight, from my hand to my chest. Since then, he's been extremely restless in his Kritter Keeper...

So I made the difficult decision to get another mantis, thereby doubling my current collection! :D My justification for this new addition was that I had to order food for adult Siri anyway, so why not add a sibling for the same shipping? I picked my ghost up from the post office Friday, and I...

Hello, everyone... with a stretch of warm weather here, I've been thinking a lot about trying to find wild mantids. After reading/researching about the subject on this site, I've learned what kinds of areas to look in: overgrown, meadow-y, someplace with lots of feeder insects. Seems people have...

I woke up Wednesday morning to find my H. patellifera boy, Siri, had molted into an adult! He is my first and only mantis, so I was thrilled (and even more glad that it happened when I was asleep, or I would have had a panic attack). It had just happened, since he was still flicking his wings...

Hello all; I've noticed a few of the times that I get my L4 nymph, Siri, out for some exercise that he'll almost lay down on my hand for quite awhile. He extends his folded raptorials out and lays flat on me -once with his abdomen curled up and twice with it straight. I'm just wondering... do...

After lurking around this site a bit and debating about it for a couple of months, I got my first mantis two weeks ago. (I live in an apartment while I'm at school and we're not allowed to have pets except for fish... I thought a mantis might be an acceptable substitute...) He (seems to have 7-8...

Hello! My name is Jamie. I live in Washington state and am currently a student working towards an Environmental Science degree. After doing a bit of online research, I thought a mantis would be a good pet for my current living situation; I have just ordered my first, a H. patellifera nymph, and...