Female Mantis is afraid of something?

[Mantis Lady]

It hurt to let them go...3 mantids gone in 1 weekend is too much. But I had to do it. ??

Have to get used to not seeing Cochise on my desk. She was always there.

 

[MantisGirl13]

??????? I am so sorry! We will miss Cochise and Ney so much. 

- MantisGirl13

 

[cwebster]

We keep our mantises in the bathroom so we can try to control the temperature and humidity there. Dont know if that is whipy the ghosts do well but the chinese do not. Hope your mantis continues to do well. It makes me crazy whenever we lose one and each year, i dread losing them eventually to old age because they are such intelligent sweet creatures. 

 

[Mantis Lady]

lost Yoda and Bob too on first 2 days of my vaciation trip. They were acting the same like the others did. 2 survived: Hunter and Ashoka. They are doing fine and could enjoy the Norwegian air. But no mates for them..

 

[MantisGirl13]

I am so sorry that you lost them!l

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

I am still missing them all. no new mantis will replace them. They were all unique creatures. I am happy i have lots of pics of them. I will never forget them and how they learned me to have respect for the insect world.

I don't know yet what new mantids I should buy next.

 

[MantisGirl13]

You should get ghosts! 

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

You should get ghosts! 

I was already thinking about that. But the breeder I buy my mantids don't have them at the moment. I want other species now to take care for. Taking the same species as as the ones I lost I don't think that is good now. I need more time to give it a place.

I found a breeder in England who has them and the cute panthers too. But i am afraid the  shipping trip will be too long for the nymphs.

 

[MantisGirl13]

Ghost nymphs are very hardy and can survive long shipping trips as long as they are not too long. I think you'd be fine with getting them. How long do you expect shipping time to be?

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

I think that it will be longer than a shipping trip from Germany: that is 4 days, maybe i should ask the breeder how long it will take. In the mean time I have ordered other species that german breeder has too. I have to think about names: bud wing female L6 (males were out of stock) 2 unsexed L4 Hierodula patellifera. I hope they are male and female. Never seen mantids mate real life. If you have sugestions of cool names you can post them.?

 

[ausar318]

I got my mantids from England, a man by the name of Andrew Mitchell, his website is here:

http://theprayingmantis.co.uk/

shipping is pretty expensive, if you go for the express (5-6 days), but the normal (which works out to be about $20) takes an average of 9 days, which is a pretty long time, but he is a master at packing them. I ordered my orchids from him, and they were delayed by the post office ?, and ended up taking SIXTEEN DAYS!!! Still, after all that time, they were alive, albeit very hungry, but alive nonetheless. They took a couple of days, but they both ended up perfectly healthy. He was very good with communication, and is a very respectable businessman (Not to mention very confident in his shipping) 

Out of curiosity, who are you ordering from in Germany?

 

[Mantis Lady]

I have ordered my new new mantids here: https://www.mantidsandmore.com/ They are whitin 4 days at my place if it goes ok during shipping.

Oh,  the site you mentioned was the site where I saw the Ghosts and Panthers.

16 days whitout food, poor orchids There can much wrong during shipping...