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My girlfriend found a Mantis religiosa on August 22nd and took her home. She was skinny and could fly, so for a time I started to second guess that she was a she despite the segment count being that of a female. Eventually she got very plump, and this weekend (about 45 days later) she laid an...

I'm sorry we have read everything we can get our hands on, and have been getting great advice from a lot of very nice people... We know we have to diapause our European ootheca. Question is, what is the best method? We've been told to put them in a fridge, but that there can be a problem with...

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I found to my horror last night my European mantis had lost a leg this weekend while she was doing her nightly stuff on the bed. I went and looked in her living area and there it was. It happened this weekend when we were gone for a day. My girlfriend thinks maybe it happened when she put her...

This is Gizmo. I named her before I knew she was a she. As I was leaving work with her I was reminded of the old asian man that carried Gizmo around in the movie Gremlins, and I knew at least it was asian... After she laid an ootheca we celebrated by letting her enjoy a tasty cricket on...

I have had my Chinese European mantis for one month and in that time it's just been her. Last weekend she made a rather large ootheca. I just assumed it was fertile but in reading online I learned that they will lay oothecas even if they have not mated. I read somewhere online where a guy...

Hi my name is Scott and recently my girlfriend and I unexpectedly became owners of a Chinese mantis. She lept out of a box with product from China at our work and she's been our pet ever since. We have become really attached to her, probably too much so, which means we spoil her rotten as best...