Do mantids molt more often during the day or night?

[kamakiri]

My S. limbata mantises seem to molt pretty consistently during the day.

 

[revmdn]

I just had four more molts in the last three days. Again, half during the day, half at night.

 

[revmdn]

Two more day time molts. I guess they just molt when it's time.

 

[shorty]

Hi, I Usually find that theyve molted during the night when I check them in the morning, I have seen a few molt during the day but it seems to me they prefer the night to molt. I think the easiest way to keep track of when there going to molt is by keeping a good record of when they molted last. Theres a few free programs you can download to keep track of that sort of thing. Heres a link to download them, Ive been using the Exotic Keepers Record v1.2 and I really like it though I use it more for my tarantulas than for mantids. http://johnmcp.adsl24.co.uk/index_files/Page568.htm

Hey, is there another link to get that application somewhere? It appears that that link is broken and I cannot find it anywhere else online. If you don't know of another place to get it, could you send it to me?

Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind on that, I realized it was for Windows and it does not work on Mac OS X. However, you said that there were a few programs. Do you know of another one? Perhaps one that works on Mac OS?

 

[Dinora]

Hi, I Usually find that theyve molted during the night when I check them in the morning, I have seen a few molt during the day but it seems to me they prefer the night to molt. I think the easiest way to keep track of when there going to molt is by keeping a good record of when they molted last. Theres a few free programs you can download to keep track of that sort of thing. Heres a link to download them, Ive been using the Exotic Keepers Record v1.2 and I really like it though I use it more for my tarantulas than for mantids. http://johnmcp.adsl24.co.uk/index_files/Page568.htm

Damn... the site is down...

I wonder if there is an iPhone app for that... anyone know? I couldn't find one, but sometimes you need to know just the right key words for the search for those apps.