Cochises pics

[MantisGirl13]

YAY, BOB! It is funny how they molt at night, but I guess in the wild it makes sense. You should definitely get him a bigger cage.  

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

yeah. He is outgrown that. he needs a higher up home to have room for his last molt.

 

[MantisGirl13]

For sure! What are you going to keep him in now?

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

Think he will move to Cochise her home and Cochise to the traveling box if she is not free climbing on my desk. She is more out her home than in   Bob will be having enough molting space then. Think will later buy a new terrarium again. but I have another big plastic box i can turn into a mantis home. Those exo terra homes are expensive sadly enough. but I like them because they have doors.

 

[Mantis Lady]

Bob ate his first grasshopper after molt. He had a good appetite.

 

[MantisGirl13]

Cute. That sounds like you have the container situation all figured out!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

Next day I saw Bobs abdomen was very flat again so I decided to feed Bob and Cochise a roach. They were enjoying it a lot.

 

[MantisGirl13]

That is such a cute photo! The one with her burying her face in the roach. So cute. I agree, she is so pretty. I showed my little sister that photo, and she said "Wu Need get one those"

(You need to get one of those)  

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

Hahaha,? funny. How old is your sister? You heard her: you need to buy a hierodula membranacea female ?

 

[MantisGirl13]

 Maybe I will! She is five, but has some speech troubles. We got her through foster care when she was seven weeks old, and we adopted her when she was two. She had a heart transplant last spring. She is a great sister.

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

Nice that your family took your sister in the family. I hope she is doing fine after the heart transplant. you can show her mantids are facinating creatures

 

[MantisGirl13]

She is kinda scared of my mantids, but interested as well, you know, in that little kid way, where they are shy, but interested. She is doing great.

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

she is interested that is a good.

I loved to explain about my mantids to kids when I was on amping trip. Some of them were a bit scared but intrested too. I fed Cochise before them and told how to care for them. I got questions too. It was fun for them, but for me too.

I don't have kids of my own, but love kids from others.

 

[MantisGirl13]

Yeah I love to see kids' reactions when they see that I have a mantis. There is this one five or six year old in my church that is obsessed with my mantids!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

Did you take your mantis to church? Maybe that kid will be a mantis keeper in the future (if his mom has no problem with it)

I met a man during a service  on a christian conference. who had his bird with him. i started to ask questions about it because I had never seen ppl doing that.  He told me he takes his bird everywhere. I told him about mantis keeping and never thought to take Cochise to a service. The bird was quiet the whole time, just sitting with him.

 

[MantisGirl13]

I take my mantids to youth group. Do you go to church?

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

I am not going often. It takes a lot of energy for me to go.

 

[MantisGirl13]

 I am glad you go, sometimes, at least.]

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

God is everywhere an I can read my bible at home.

 

[Mantis Lady]

Bob had a good dinner: he ate his cricket whole. No leftovers?