First time post with pictures!!

177ichael · May 5, 2008

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting here as you can see. I picked these Mantids up at the local OSH Hardware store and have quickly become fascinated with these little insects. I plan on doing a lot of reading around here and just wanted to introduce myself. Oh by the way, if anyone can ID these guys, it would be very helpful in learning more about them. Thanks for looking!

Andrew · May 5, 2008

It's Tenodera sinensis, Chinese Mantis. Were they selling them live or did you hatch them out?

Guest · May 5, 2008

Andrew said:
It's Tenodera sinensis, Chinese Mantis. Were they selling them live or did you hatch them out?

That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming. The ooths were being sold in twos and we placed one in a container indoors and zip tied another one onto a tree in the yard. After about a month, the indoor ooth hatched and now we are captivated by them. We ended up keeping five of them and have them in individual containers.