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Message: <blockquote data-quote="germaineglass" data-source="post: 259185" data-attributes="member: 7532"><p>Hi - So our beloved Manty laid an ooth over the weekend. It was a few days before her ooth that she last ate - so she is going on just about a week now with no food. Pre-ooth I gave her a bit of honey and a bit of water - but at this point she has been refusing all water and food for a few days now. She has slowly moved lower in her terrarium and is now just laying on her back in the sand I have as substrate. She is still pulsing her abdomen and occasionally moving her legs but is otherwise non responsive. Her abdomen is slightly curved in a crescent shape - so I am wondering is she has some internal damage - or maybe didn't get all her eggs out into the ooth? Has anyone seen a praying mantis recover from this state? I read some mentions of placing mantids in the freezer to put them out of their misery but I wasn't sure if this was really a humane thing to do or should I just let her be? She used to be so vibrant and such a great hunter...</p></blockquote><p></p>