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Heres a pic of my baby that is crippled and has to be hand fed. The first day I discovered it could not eat, was about a week ago. I had seen it a couple times and never really paid much attention to it. Then I noticed it's little hands were outstretched and could not catch food. So I took it out of the container and put it in a cup by itself and gave it a drink, then I caught a bb fly and offered it to him. He grabbed it with his mouth and without hands kept it in its mouth until it was All Gone.! So now we had a system going. The next day I seen it was still alive (it was weak the day before, probably from starving :huh: ) so I hot glued a tree (small branch) to a cup and put him on it, after awhile I put him on his feeding lid and he ate, he was taking a long time to eat today so I went in search of my own substance while I waited for him to finish, he was about 3 or 4" away from his tree when I left, when I came back into the Bugatorium, he was on his tree hanging out! I thought how cute! He knows where his little house is! Now mind you, he had to manuever with just his back legs and climb up and over the cup to get there. Isn't that funny? Who would think he knew where his house was, with everything sitting on the counter, he went there. :p

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Awwww.... :wub: What species is he, Rebecca? That's nice that you take the time and effort, with all of the mantids to have to care for, to give him special attention and tend to his needs. :)

 
That's too bad his arms are crippled. I accidentally crippled one of my H. membranacea rear legs last night while feeding. He dropped his food and tended to his leg for hours. Finally got him to eat today. Is that an H. membranacea? That looks exactly like the ones you sent me.

 
Pnigomantis sp?
If that is the case I may have received the wrong species. I don't think it is though. After looking at several pics it doesn't really look like a Pnigomantis sp nymph.

 
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If you ignore the shield it kinda looks like a female of mine, proportion wise and all, we`ll see what it is soon ^_^

 
It's a budwing or Dead leaf, I forget which. When I go to feed this morning, (is it morning already)? I will compare it to the others to see.

 
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100% not a dead leaf, im not too sure about it being a bud wing either

 
Well i `ant kept Sphodromantis before :p

Although looking at the shield now it is the same shape as my sisters african mantis :huh:

 
That's amazing he made it back to his tree with out being able to use his forelegs. I wouldn't expect them to be able to do this. :D

 
Why thank you!

and no, I did not. <_<

I did a search on Google's images, found one I liked and cropped it into a square. :p

 

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