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Here's some better pictures of my female ground mantis who was nice enough to pose for some photos.

Sorry If it's hard to see the small species of mantis but its very hard to get a good picture without a micro lens, other then that glad you like em.

Hi everyone I joined awhile back and introduced myself and mentiond I keep two types of mantis and some people were interested in seeing photos, I'm happy to finally post these nice little photos, hope you guys enjoy.

Hey everyone just a small update on the black death problem, the first mantis who has been suffering from it seems to be doing alot better I thought she was a goner but she's come back from near death, also a second mantis is showing signs black goo so on but not as bad as what the first one...

I'm breeding Giant rainforest mantises, I'm also trying to find a mate for my small mantis species I don't know the name of, I had both males and females but sadly the last male died just before my only female reached maturity so now I've got a lone female in need of a mate. The small species...

Thank you for the advice, I'll make sure the next bunch of mantises I hatch don't ever touch a cricket, but I think I'll have my hands full with feeding all the nymphs I always end up with way too many

Thank you for letting me know, are there any other insects you'd suggest to use to replace crickets as one of their main foods? I like to try give my mantises a mix of insects but I always need main foods that are easy to breed or find.

Is there any reason crickets cause this? and the black death sounds like it fits the problem I can't believe I messed up with their diet but at least I can easily fix this problem and stop it from happening again

I feed them crickets wood roaches and grasshoppers mostly, I mist once a day and I house them in mesh enclosures.

I've got 4 female giant rainforest mantises which I've owned since they hatched and I've been careful keeping their homes clean, but recently one of my mantises has gotten sick and is producing black goo from her abdomen which seems to be very swollen compared to my other three mantises to add...

I sadly don't as they come up blurry in photos I can take a picture but it'll be hard to see the detail on the mantises, some of the things that stand out is the females are wingless and and look bulky and armored kind of like a spiny stick insect, while the males a very slim with large wings...

Hello everyone I'm a mantis keeper from aus and currently have two species of mantises but have kept up to four species in the past, I'm currently caring for 5 giant rainforest mantises and 4 of a small brown ground species which I just call ground boxing mantises not sure if that's correct as...

I've had a similar experience with one of my mantises, I left no prey in the enclosure so I was confused at first, so I removed everything from the enclosure to discover a grub/maggot creature which turned out to be larvae of a parasitic wasp which must have managed to insert an egg into my...