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Tonite I am trying to mate two wild caught. Mantissa the male approaches slowly but then ends up parallel flicking it abdomen outwards with wings flared..normal?

My Ghost mantids have reached their final molts and as we speak one is just drying off but his wings are still unfurled. The one before this has the messed up curly wing thing going on and I wanted to prevent this one from the same issue. Is there anything else i can do to help this not occur...

i noticed my ghost right raptoral arm is closed and she is having a difficult time climbing. it was not always like this but I am hoping her next molt will correct it. Any one see anything like this before? Also, my nephew got confused with the feeding instructions and put blue bottles in with...

Hey, guys! We had a recent problem with our fridge and put most of our foods in my sister's fridge. Unfortunately, she is too stinkin squeamish about any of my feeders in her frige. I kept them on ice for as long as i could until we got the new fridge. But, they just began hatching like crazy...

Hey guys!! It's been a long time miss you guys here at the forum! Been telling my friends about the forum and the support we find here as well as introducing others to the wonderful world of mantids!!!! :D Unfortunately, I have been out of town for a while and and took my babies with me while...

Can S. Limbata nymphs be housed together without incident if well fedand plentey of leaves, branches etc. for cover??

So, I use to have all the supplies needed to start an extended culture of ffs. This time put in the sugar,instant potatoes but guess what...no yeast. Had no choice just let it go and they began to make maggots. When I fed the ffs from this culture (which had begun to mold and decompose so to...

Hey guys received these little guys a few weeks ago and still no molt. She is clearly all fatty fat even before engorging herself with ffs and through one of my detached 50mm lenses I can see the new body pushing it's way through the little butt. So, I am wondering why she...they have not molted...

I have heard of this waaaay back when first I joined the forum but not since. She had a bad molt which somehow contributed toe her having this elongated raptorial arm which kept getting in the way as she walked. Then I noticed she was chewing on the thing and later it was just gone. So, now she...

Needless to say I am not able to get online as much these days as in times past! I absolutely LOVE what you guys have done with the place!!! Looks reeeeeaally great!! Glad to be a part of the forum even when I have been a way for a while I miss it when I finally do get a chance to log in!!!

For some reason my female S. Parva has not laid any infertile oothecae. Not one and she has been adult for over three months or so. Why would this be? Even though she has not mated she should still lay ooths, right? She is so fat she is dragging her self around with her belly on the floor, so to...

Look at this pic He was absolutely fine all day and just an hour ago I noticed he was losing control of his extremities. I picked him up he clinged to my finger as if he could not control his grip I had to pry hes claw from my finger. I gave him water he drank almst his body size and then...

when first I wrote about my mating woes JamesLOngo or something like that, made a statement something to the nature of "what kind of dim witted males....? Well at first I took offense to his remarks as I know males and the whole mating thing varies from case to case. However., today I am...

I guess this is a dumb question but here goes , she is still laying a very large infertile ooth., how many ooth does an average femle lay or is it just a ###### shoot so to speak. I'm like looking at this ooth like lahhh man, if only those bubble heads would have gotten the mating thing right...

What exactly should i look for with my female wide arm aside from when they approach her she is very calm for the most part and it takes a lot for her to grab at them in anger or what ever even after being wounded during attempted mounting? Still, leary about mating them with her for the...

She is now laying her first dud ooth how long after do I wait to try to mate her again. Hopefully, the males will settle down a bit an dtry not to grab her by the abdomen again piercing her while they try to hold her down to mount. This is the first time i have had this particularproblem and I...

I know I asked a member a question about this but again tonight it occurred again. I have two virile males C.Humeralis which are trying to mate with my very fatty fat female. She is a doll believe it or not she has not been difficult to approach at all. And only once during this entire mating...

I was just curious... do mantids emit pheromones like some other insects to attract potential mates? And if not how do they know when it's time to mate and how do we exactly know for that matter. Is it all instinct or like a coming o age thing as my nephew puts it?! Do they tend to have...

I noticed before my Wide Arm molted (the one I wrote about in "Whohoooo...) that she was holding on with only one back foot. I figured it was injured some how and that it would fix itself in the molt. Well, not the case. She is holding that leg up pretty high most of the time and when I looked...

So, I just fed a nymph which had molted yesterday. Since the abdomen was all thin and such I figured I'd better give him something to fill it or else he will eat a mate. So, since I was negligent in starting my next fly culture in time I am out until the pupae hatch in the cup. So, I chopped up...