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I came up with an interesting technique to keep your mantises fed for whenever your cultures may have little to no adult flies when it's time to feed. I've usually had no problem with having flies available while maintaining two cultures at a time but this year, my cultures would produce adult...

I'm an invertebrate enthusiast from Ontario, Canada who's been out of the hobby for a while. My love for insects, arachnids and reptiles has never gone and I plan on getting back into mantis keeping in the near future. What re-sparked my interest was when I happened along an ootheca a couple...

It's been a while since I've been on here and I'm looking to get back into exotic mantis species. I'm located in Ontario, Canada near Toronto and it's hard to find other keepers. I'm looking for Sophodromantis, Hierodula and any Hymenopodidae species mainly but I'm interested in most. If you...

I hatched out a wild-collected Mantis religiosa ootheca that I collected last Autumn and had stored in the refrigerator at 5 degrees Celsius. It was put in the fridge in the first week of October and was taken out to incubate on the 5th of January. It hatched right after 4 weeks of incubating at...

Creobroter sp. 'Bokoharjo' for sale in Niagara Falls, pickup only. They are 4th instar and are eating hydei fruitflies. They are $5 each or 5 for $20.

Creobroter sp. 'Bokoharjo' nymphs for sale. They are currently 1st instar, soon to be 2nd. Asking for $15 each or $10 each if you buy more than one. I am located in the Niagara Region in Ontario.

I have 2nd, 3rd and 4th instar Ghosts for sale and 4th and 5th instar Chinese for sale. I am in the Niagara region in Ontario. Contact me if interested.

I have two adult female Hierodula that seem healthy and eat when given prey. One of them has already mated too. What I don't understand is why they have a funny, unpleasant smell. I keep them on coco coir as a substrate and I spot clean by picking out dead prey parts so I know that stuff isn't...

I went on a walk today because it was sunny and not very windy. The snow was knee deep due to yesterday's huge snowstorm. I was walking by an area of development where they had installed a temporary fence made with that landscape fabric stuff. Since I found that mantids like to lay their ooths...

I put a couple T. sinensis pairs together in an attempt to mate them. The females have been adult and unmated for a month and the males have been adult for around 2 weeks. One of the females has already laid an infertile ooth as well. Having them both fattened up, I placed the males with them...

I put my male and female Tenodera sinensis together and when he jumped on her, he landed clumsy and grabbed her abdomen and the spines on his forelegs caused her to bleed. In the picture, you can see the blue-green hemolymph oozing from her. Will she be okay or will she be unable to mate or die...

I have an extra subadult female Hierodula cf. multispina that I do not need for breeding so if anyone would like it, I will sell it for just $20. I live in the Niagara region in Ontario.

I have plenty Tenodera sinensis, Phyllocrania paradoxa and Hierodula cf. multispina nymphs for sale. I am selling them for cheaper because its getting closer to Christmas! Message me if interested.

I got three species currently available. I had another ghost mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa) hatch so now I have L1, L2 and L5 sexed available. Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) L4 sexed Asian Marbled Mantis (Hierodula cf. parviceps) L3. Message me if interested.

Some people who have seen pictures of my Hierodula parviceps are suggesting that it may not actually be parviceps. Someone told me that it may be multispina. The species was labelled as parviceps and the initially stock that was collected was from the Philippines. Does anyone know whether or not...

I am looking for the African Twig Mantis (Popa spurca). Any life stage would be good and I prefer to purchase or trade with someone who's local or at least within Ontario because I am not yet educated in shipping, especially shipping across borders.

This is a mated female H. parviceps I just got today along with a handful of first instar nymphs. I am really digging her pale blue colour.

I am looking for Spiny Flower Mantis, either Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii or P. occelata. Creobroter species would be okay too. I am in the Niagara Region of Ontario. Message me if you have any for sale or for trade.

Right now my ghosts are early instar and I have them all together in a well set-up shoebox enclosure. To feed them, I simply sprinkle fruitflies from the fruitfly culture deli up into an empty deli cup and then I quickly close the fruitily culture. I then shake the deli cup full of fruitflies so...

Hello! I still have plenty Ghost Mantises (Phyllocrania paradoxa) for sale. They are now going into their third instar. I am asking for $25 each. I am from the Niagara region in Ontario and I don't ship outside the country. I also have Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis) oothecae for sale along...