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Sorry for the dreadful picture, I've placed her outside where she came from (Hotel Mantis is currently full), she has some greenish white stuff on her behind.

My daughter found a mantis inside (miomantis caffra) and I can tell it has laid an ooth, as it has a thin abdomen and ooth materiel on it's rear end  But we can't find it anywhere! She was on a wooden frame that we have in front of some drawers of Lego to stop the toddler getting the Lego...

You have the most amazing array of mantid's I have ever laid my eyes on! 

These are amazing pictures, beautiful and clever shots.

Gorgeous little thing!

I do know our baby m.caffra are pretty interesting and striped, this is one example. So perhaps other mio breeds are?

What a mystery! The tooth doesn't look like the miomantis oothes we have here, but ours are miomantis caffra. This has been an exciting read :-)

Just curious, would maggots be dangerous? House and blowfly maggots.

I don't think I've ever thought about my mantid's being hungry - I just catch them food and feed it to them as I find it (house flies etc). My mantid's are only about an inch or so long so it doesn't take much to plump their tummies up. Some days they'll get several flies each, some days...

I house my mantids in home made of Lego, I have about that many holes as I use some technical bricks at the top and bottom. I've never had a single mismoult or mould issue. I do open the lids every day to say hello to them and wave a bit of fresh air in though.

Thanks for your input!  It could be so - if it is of any note, I'm in New Zealand and they are an introduced species here. Since the late 1970's if I recall correctly. I have never had a fertile ooth, I have at least 10 on my living room curtains but nothing ever comes of them. Plenty of dead...

She is very cute in real life! She has an adorable face.

Sorry for the lame title, I wasn't exactly sure how to word it. For every 10 miomantis caffra I find outside, 1 tends to be pale a pale brown female. They are always larger than the green females. I wondered if anyone else noticed mantid's who have a variety when it comes to colour, also...

I think she also, she's very hard to get a good look at though. Is very active! Our other mantid's are happy to sit on a hand and be looked at, she will do her best to run up your arm or run across a table.

Orthodera novaezealandiae is being pushed aside, killed, and having habitat taken over by miomantis caffra. I would implore people to please not buy and sell the wild caught ooths. I saw one orthodera novaezealandiae in the mid/early 2000's in the wild, and have seen a second one this year...2018. 

If desperate and in a warm climate, exposing some skin outside to attract mosquitoes has worked for me in the past. Easily caught and small bugs.

My mantid's don't much like roaches either. I've only had a couple of miomantis caffra who would tackle a roach. One roach was bigger than her...that was a battle! Otherwise it seems flies are THE most popular meal.

I have a miomantis caffra housed next to an orthodera novaezealandiae, there are plastic Lego windows separating them. She spends 90% of her day with her face pressed against them frantically wanting to attack o.novaezealandiae haha! The otherantis hasn't even acknowledged her existance. You've...

I was visiting someone, and saw a Orthodera novaezealandiae just casually standing on the ground by my car. I excitedly gathered it up and brought it home. I haven't come across one for... Well many years! It is an adult. I can't find much about telling the male and female apart online, and it...