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I have two iris ooths from a wild cought female and I am waiting on them to hatch, but wondering how I should care for the ooths. I am misting them weekly to every other week becuase it is a dryer SP. Did I kill the ooths by not misting enough? One ooth is about a week old and the other is about...

Hello I emailed Wayne about mantids and I ask it's there any way to get the regulations on mantids to change and he said this " The regulations covering mantids has been revised after more than 20 years and will be going to the Federal Register for public comment any day now –we thought it...

Tomorrow I leave to spend 2 days collecting AZ unicorn mantis and hang out with friends. can't wait Becuase this is the best time of the year and it's at my favorite collecting spot. I plan to really take my time to collect them. also my goal is to post pictures after.  after the trip I will try...

I was wondering about what USPS says spiders are not allowed to be shipped, now this is probably means dangerous or deadly spiders, becuase I buy phidippus jumpimg spiders and trade them sometimes. And since phidippus is native to the USA I believe that they are 100% legal to go over state lines...

I pmed Cosby art this to to see what he had to say...here's what's on my mind, to be honest I am still deathly afraid of what usda says about mantids but I have made a deal with my self to still stay with this hobby, until I get rock hard evidence that says I can in fact keep exotic mantids I am...

Hello I want to buy ghost mantids, boxer mantids orcid mantis and any interesting mantids pm if you have any on this list or have some cool sp. For sale I am in Tucson Arizona USA thanks  :D

Hello I am looking for ghost mantis nymphs of sub adult or adult pairs Pm if you have them. I am in Tucson Arizona USA thanks  :D

Hello guys and gals  :D  I was wondering since I am still new to this hobby what are the best starter sp. Of mantids that is still fun to keep. I also want a easy sp. To raise and breed any suggestions for me. Share you thoughts  :rolleyes:

I have need a female ground mantis because I have a male and want to try my hand at breeding this sp. Or I can loan my male out and we maybe split the ooths. I also am in need of a female AZ unicorn mantis I can loan out my male or buy a female. If you have any of thsee 2 sp. Pm me I am in...

Hi I am in Tucson AZ USA and need a female unicorn mantis to breed with my male I can buy or breeding loan pm me for details 

He guys and gals just wanted to share some pictures of my beetle larva there wild cought in Arizona and the sp. Is strategus aloeus 

Hi I was justwonding if anyone knows how to culture flies I need some advice becuase I found a bunch of the same sp. Of flies and thought I might give culturing flies a go

Hi I was winding if there is a way to get mantids to molt faster I heard if you have more heat will feeding them more often help any advice helps :)

Hi just wondering if anyone is interested in Tolype moth caterpillars or eggs....a WC female I kept over night has laid eggs I can wait til there caterpillars...and I still have the female..PM me if your interested  I am in tucson AZ USA 

Hi I just received 2 new ooths today they are H.major (gaint boxer mantis ) and want to know if the ooths look good both detached in shipping but they seem fine the ooths are really cool H.major ooths are weird and cool there foamy and green the last pic one looks white that's just the photo I...

Hey guys  and galsI just wanted to show you some new mantid enclosures I bought they are really nice and we're at a great price of course they were not made for mantids but it's really esay to turn them into a mantis enclosure.... I was looking for these and finally found some for sale :) I...

Just wanted to show you guys what I am working on . It's a micro fuit flie culture it's only a few  inches tall and about an inch and a half wide its doing good and I know that there producing because there are about 15-20 pupa near the top what do you think ?...... of it 

I am in search of any kind of boxer mantids I really want a ooth of the gaint boxer mantis H.major if you have some PM me I am in tucson arizona US

hi guys i am in Tucson Arizona and this is what i have for sale i won it all in a bug raffle but don't have the space right now PM me if your interested i cant ship roaches to a state that it is illegal for them to be in PLEASE INFORM ME ! heres whats for sale don't want to sell this but if i...

hi i am spider_creations I am new here but I have an Instagram its spider_creations. I live in Arizona and enjoy hiking  bug collecting ect. I have kept mantids in the past but never really got into it until now I plan on getting a ghost ooth to start me out but have had no luck finding some one...