Can't stop won't stop

[Bathory]

So I now have 3 mantids instead of one and I'm pretty sure the collection will grow. Someone stop me before it's too late



Here's Elizabeth Bathory, my female Hierodula majuscula



Ripley, my adult female Rhombodera



And the new addition! Here's Lilith, my female Gongylus gongylodes.

Ripley has crooked raptorial arms since her molting accident, but she's catching food and climbing around just fine. I just got Lilith yesterday, she's in a cage I made myself out of a lantern that I removed the glass from and replaced with mesh. I'm not really gonna handle her because I'm afraid she might break lol. Elizabeth is a ninja molter who surprised me with an old exuvia one morning.

 

[Nanodot]

Beautiful!

 

[Connor]

You have some amazing mantis. Once you get one or two it’s hard to stop buying them!

 

[PrayingMantisPets]

It too late, you’re stuck in the mantis grasp. That’s a nice violin. 

 

[Okoboji22]

Love the rhombodera, im about to get one myself! Mantids are like potato chips, you can't have just one.

 

[cwebster]

Lovely " potato chips"!

 

[MasterB758]

I have a Devils Flower Mantis and a Carolina Ootheca

 

[Aquaticcreature]

Love the rhombodera, im about to get one myself! Mantids are like potato chips, you can't have just one.

Yeah, but people look at you funny if your eating a bag of mantids.