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A mantis that I had found within the last month was looking sluggish last night so I threw the last cricket I had in the tank in high hopes. Well soon after the cricket was eaten and the mantis went from laying on a fake plant to hanging on the wall again. This morning I noticed a small ooth on...

This is on my patio underneath my neighbors patio (if that makes sense), I can't tell if it is a mantis ooth, you will have to excue the quality I took the pic on my phone. It is grey and looks to have either a hole or a hollow part at the base of it. I am not sure what it is, if it is indeed a...

Made this the other day, wondering if I should use it for my ghost ooth, or my 3 creos, what do you guys think?

I found this on my patio, pics can be seen in "found on patio", anyway I misted it and fed it some D hydei, it ate 7 back to back, at one point it had one in each claw! D hydei was all I had on hand at the time. So I think it could be a female due to 5-6 segments, and a california mantis...

Okay, so the last time that Francis went into a molt was on April 6, which means she should molt again any day now. I was feeding her tonight and she had no black stripes underneath her abdomen, after she ate one fruit fly she suddenly produced the very visible black stripes, but I was also able...

My mantis Francis molted to L5 the other day. Problem was she could not get her claws fully out of the old skin on her own. So I intervened and helped her out (she was stuck for over 12 hours!). She is still active but has not closed her claws since. She can fully extend them outward, but no...

So my mantis which appears to be an L5 has its arms stuck inits skin while molting. It has been this way for about 5-6 hours. Anything I can do to help?

Francis has been hanging upside down in the same spot all day, is it molting? The mantis is L3.

I have an L3 Yenis red armed mantis. It has developed 2 very pronounced dark stripes underneath the abdomen. Is this just part of becoming bigger and color changes? Not worried, just really curious.

So I did my first attempt at a culture of ffs. I did not have any proper excelsior so I used some uncooked fettucini noodle that were really wavy and curly. Anyone think I will run into any problems with this? It looks like there is more than enough area for breeding and larvae.

I have a Yenis red armed mantis. It seems to be doing so well. My first mantis was eaten by crickets, don't ask it was the missus who brought the crickets home. Anyway, I find mantis' so fascinating, I love when I am able to catch it eating the flies. I recieved my mantis as an L2, and it has...