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Ok now I'm creeped out a bit!  In my communal tank of two adult pairs of popas, the older male (3 wks) finally attempted to mate with the older female some time last night.  At 7 AM when I uncovered the tanks, Daisy had eaten Huey to his abdomen and he was still hanging on but not attached. I...

CosbyArt stopped answering threads and PM's mid Oct.  Anyone have news?  I miss him.

Can these two feeders be kept together?

My female, Speedy, had her final molt yesterday and at first I thought she was perfectly beautiful with her gorgeous wings and huge size!  Then she started moving.  Her legs are sooo long she hardly knew what to do with them!  Her sticky feet and long, straight legs weren't working well enough...

My Dbl shield has been guarding her ooth for a day and a half.  I tried to move her a long so I could remove it but she quickly turned on me and I wasn't about to challenge her (she is a big girl!)  Is this typical behavior?  The ooth is infertile so I suppose I could just leave it. Also, she...

So, my unmated Hierodula is 54 days old and her abdomen is huge.  Every day I search for answers about when to expect her first ooth (my Budwing who is the same age has layed two!)  So, today I put her in a large Xmas cactus to change her surroundings and after climbing around a bit, she...

I thought female mantids ate lots before laying an ooth but mine have gone on a hunger strike for three days. Last week, they each ate a whole adult male Dubia and then maybe a few BB flies over the weekend. Now nothing. I have tried BB flies, crickets, and waxworms and they just bat them away...

Male ghost molted to adult last week (one month exact from sub to adult.) My female molted to sub Dec 2. I have read that females can take 2-3 months for their final molt. If that's the case, will my male be too old for her?

I have a Hierodula, sub-adult, who is getting ready for that final molt. She is in a 32 oz cup about 6 " tall, organza with shelf liner on the lid and 1/2" heavy plastic mesh encircling her cup. No sticks or decoration. I was planning on moving her into an 80 oz, decorated home before the...

Female sub-adult, Jasmine, is happily eating anything I give her. Her total food for the last three days has been a 1" Dubia (the whole thing), cricket same size, 8 BB flies. I am only concerned because my first Chinese got too fat (or egg bound) and had a prolapsed anus which ultimately...

I just cleaned my small dubia colony. I read that you shouldn't have too many adult males as they fight and disrupt the females. I have about 200 roaches total (100 sub-adult and adult, and 100 purchased nymphs 3/4" and under.) So I counted the adult males as I moved them---43 adults, now 37...

Ugh! So I bought some "cleaner beetles" (buffalo beetles?) to put in the Dubia roach bin. I read they wouldn't bother the roaches. I know that I sometimes get a couple of the beetles or larva in the wax worms I order so I thought maybe everyone uses them in their feeder insects. All was well...

My H. membranacea molted in transit and is a mess! His thorax is humped badly so his face drags which makes it hard to try feeding him honey or baby meat, his grabber arms are pretty much useless---don't know why, and he can only scuttle backwards. He still has unmolted skin stuck under his...

Hey, I bought some of this Repashy bug Burger a couple of days ago. My Dubia roaches (couple hundred) never seemed to eat, except for roach jelly and grapes. Their dry chow (I have offered three kinds, incl. dry cat food.) never seemed to be eaten. So, I offered them a patty from the first...

I have ordered roaches, beetles and food supplies from this company several times. Everything has come perfectly wrapped, and clean---I especially appreciate that the Dubia come locked up in sturdy cloth bags! I will certainly use them again.

I have the roaches but I need the right mantids to eat them. My first mantids were T. sinensis but they wouldn't eat these roaches. Now I'm looking for another specie of mantid that will. Any in the beginner league?

B. Dubia roaches just arrived today. (It has gotten too cold at night to sit out for two hours waiting for a moth to come along!) The roaches are much bigger than I had imagined even though they are not adults. I keep looking at them and then at my female mated T. sinensis and they seem huge...

Mated my first mantis, T. sinensis, a week ago and she immediately started oozing this greenish blob! And what is the whitish oval toward the bottom of the blob? I don't know if it has hardened and will prevent her from laying an ooth. I guess I could try to touch it. Anyone know what is...

My grandson, Chris, involved me at the end of the "class project" last May. It's a long story, but I have the only surviving Mantis from that fiasco. Convinced it would not live, I ordered a nymph on-line for him (he's nine.) Learning as we go, both mantids have survived (Chinese.) Deacon (m)...