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Good morning! I'm looking to buy Carolina Ooths (stagmomantis carolina), ideally would love to buy 4-5 ooths since I need enough to create a small army of mantids to patrol my organic garden (but I always keep a few as pets because they're awesome), Carolinas are the native species commonly...

I'd love to buy some stagmomantis carolina ootheca (to keep a few as pets and create a garden-pest-eating army to guard my tomato plants). If you have any fertile carolina ooths for sale, let me know. I'd love to see pictures of the ooths to confirm the species identification. I'm located in...

Looking to buy Stagmomantis carolina ooths, I'm located in Southlake, Tarrant County, TX, USA. If you have any for sale give me a holla!

I bought a couple of "critter cases", which are circular mesh cages, for my little Carolinas to move the girls into new condos. It seemed like a good idea at first, but I noticed their little claws would get stuck in the mesh now and then, and yesterday one got so badly snared I had to cut the...

I've got a mantis with damaged mandibles from a bad molt that can only take liquids. Baby food and squished bug guts are a no-go (she can't get those down). Does anyone have a trick up their sleeve for getting chitin in a liquid form to feed injured mantids? I was half thinking of taking a...

First batch of babies, I have a lot to learn :) I understand they're teeny and fragile, but is there any way of knowing when an L1 has gone kaput? I have a couple (luckily only 2 out of a LOT) that are probably dying. Both of these are particularly teeny compared to their siblings. One I...

I realize the feed/substrate that superworms and wingless fruit flies come shipped in might not be the best to render them highly nutritious. If I were to make my own feed and culture for these, is there anything I can give them (beyond fresh fruits and veggies) that would improve them for the...

I'm thinking of making a portable outdoor enclosure for Carolina mantids, does anyone know what the minimum outdoor temps would be acceptable for them to thrive?

Looking for Stagmomantis carolina ooth (2-3), let me know if you have any available for sale. I just found out that the "carolina" ooths I bought (ebay) were mis-identified and are from a non-native species so I won't be keeping them. The tomato plants in my yard need a small army of native...

Hi everyone, I could use some help IDing some ooths I bought from Ebay a few months ago. They were advertized as Carolina mantis ooths, but I had recently read about some cases of mis-identification of Carolina ooths with Narrow Wing ooths (Tenodera angustipennis) by amateurs selling on Ebay...

I have my ooths in a ziplock canister lined with a paper towel and some wood shavings. I'd been storing them in the fridge, and read here that you have to mist them 3 times a week. So I went to pop open the container of my purchase chinese ooths to move them into a container more condusive to...

Hi Everyone, Glad to be here. I have always liked mantids, but never owned an outdoor space of my own until last year. Long story short, a little baby Carolina Mantis decided to make it's home in my garden and I watched her grow up. Sadly she didn't leave behind an ootheca (or none that I could...