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hello i think one of my nymph's legs is rotting due to too much moisture in the enclosure. it is discoloured and my mantis doesn't seem to have much control over it. Also i think he chewed off the end of the leg because the "foot" is missing. is there anything i can do? EDIT: i forgot to add...

i saw one of my tenodera nymphs play dead today. it straightened out its legs so that it had the silhouette of a twig and wouldn't move when you poked it. of course, this was after trying to get it to eat an earwig that pinched it. Mantids seem to learn when a certain type of prey is harmful...

congratulations. i bought ooths from OSH too and they hatched yesterday. good thing i had the ooths inside jars. i don't know what i'd do with 300 nymphs running around my room.

hey guys i came here basically because ive always loved insects and have wanted to raise mantids ever since i saw the eggs at OSH when i was a kid. a few years later and im sitting here with with some hundreds of nymphs sitting on my desk. this place is a great resource for raising mantids...

hello everybody, recently ive noticed mold growing on my ootheca (pics). I don't think its growing directly on the ootheca but rather the stick that it's attached to. since then, i poked more holes in the lid to improve ventilation and removed the wet paper towel i had in the jar. does...