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Hey! so my 15  Chinese Nymphs are L3/L4 now, about 1 - 1.5 inches long. They're a little big for fruit flies (and all my fruit fly cultures died) so I've decided to move on too another feeder.   I came home with waxworms, mealworms and small crickets, and tried them out. It seems like they...

I've been raising a Chinese ooth hatch and I have about 20-30 of these guys left. I want to have about 5, so I have some I can give away. They hatched late April and it's early June now, so they're about two months old. Scattered between L3 and L4. They're an inch long, friendly and ferocious...

I stayed up late tonight and looked at my terrarium after it had been in the dark for a while. Apparently there is a lot more in there than just mantises! my terrarium was made with a bunch of soil and plants from my garden.  thetr are a bunch of tiny flies that look like fruit flies with...

I hatched a Chinese mantis ootheca and now have plenty of chinese nymphs that just went to L2. I'm happy to part with some of them, but would rather not go through the hassle of shipping them. If anyone reads this and wants a Chinese Nymph and is willing to pick it up from Berkeley, CA, let me...

I have heard people referring to newly hatched nymphs as both L1 and L2 on this forum and elsewhere and I want to settle it once and for all. a mantis hatches, emerges from the ooth and immediately molts. It changes from a lil worm guy to a mini-mantis.  Then it starts walking around and...

Mantids and Womantids, I hatched my first chinese ootheca yesterday!   I am the proud parent to 150 little nightmares.  I'm planning on keeping some as pets, sending as many as I can to adoptive parents, and then releasing the rest.   I've got them chilling right now in a 10 gallon aquarium...

Hey! I live in the bay area and I just got a l2 ghost nymph that I am really excited about! Just wanted to say hello and thank you for making such a great forum! I have learned so much from reading all of the threads!

Hey! I just got a baby l2 ghost nymph and I love it, but I'm not sure how much to feed my new mantis. Sources seem to disagree - some people say a couple of flies a day, others say it only needs to eat every few days. I have a colony of springjacks and a colony of wingless melanogaster. So...