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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FeistyMcGrudle" data-source="post: 336331" data-attributes="member: 11169"><p>My female orchid was a man eater--she ate two males and almost ate a third. I was able to save the third by spraying the female with water. She literally had his body in her raptorial and I was quick enough to douse her with my spray bottle and he was able to escape. I don't typically hose down my mantises, but I wanted to make sure I didn't completely strike out (even though my female never did become fertile <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😔" title="😔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f614.png" />). He eventually perished of old age because I was too afraid to introduce them again.</p></blockquote><p></p>