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He/she molted during transit, but his will to live is amazing! He is still running around and able to hunt as long as the prey is big enough, which involves a lot of hand feeding because he is scared since I think he knows he's injured. His back left leg is completely gone, so his balance is a...

I've noticed I have A LOT of these pesky things around my garden, my ooth from Home Depot finally hatched that I got for my backyard, just curious anyone know if these are dangerous for mantids? I know they eat plants and break up the cells or something?? Thanks! Right now they are the size of...

I want one....

This is Sweet Pea. Born 5.30.2016.   Sorry the quality is not the best he decided to not move from my right hand so I had to take the picture with my left hand(so difficult) Isn't he/she so awesome? Thank you Precarious(He has some nymphs available still)! This was yesterday when I first...

Hi guys, I just got my little L1 Orchid Mantis in the mail today from Precarious! He is an active little fellow. When he arrived he was hanging very still at the top of the paper towel. I took him out offered some water, which he drank, and then tried offering some fruit flies, he had no...

Hmm, I ran out of Vaseline to put on the sides of my cups so the fruit flies cant climb up, do you know if coconut oil is safe to use instead??

Haven't seen any new posts from anyone, I've gone through so many threads today, so many beautiful mantids, I need more pictures to fill my addiction until my little guy comes in the mail!  Let me see your tids lol ;) On a side note, How's everyone doing? Anyone a hockey fan? GO SHARKS!!

Oh, where do I even begin? Even though I had not ordered from Mantisplace, I wanted to leave some kind of feedback for Rebecca, the owner of the site, and also just an amazing person in general.  I was recently sent a dead mantis from another site and stumbled across mantisplace on my search...

DO NOT BUY FROM CAPECODROACHES.COM  They packaged the poor mantis so poorly, and denied that they would package him like that. pretty much called me a liar. well long story short, he would not refund me until I had to threaten to post this on Facebook and call Paypal... Scammer much? SO I...

Hi so I'm trying to decide if  should order a small or medium kritter keeper for my orchid, she should be arriving in the mail sometime next week so I want to have everything ready for her , I will be taking her out and feeding her in a smaller container so I'm not particularly worried about...