H. Grandis isn't looking so good...

[viciousmantis]

He's sitting at the bottom of his cage, kind of sulking. One of his eyes is black and dead-looking, and his antennas are tweaked forward. He won't eat the cricket that I put in his cage, and I'm worried. What is wrong?

 

[Rick]

He is dying. Also please introduce yourself in the introductions forum.

 

[viciousmantis]

Update:He ate 1/2 of a cricket today and is climbing on the sticks in his cage. Do you think he'll get better or die?

 

[viciousmantis]

Do you think I should keep feeding him?

 

[Rick]

When they start looking bad and have trouble functioning I usually put them in the freezer and end it. It means they are dying.

 

[viciousmantis]

You were right, he died this morning. But he was from the wild, so I didn't expect him to live too long.

 

[robo mantis]

sorry about the loss but mantids don't live as long as we want them to

 

[Rick]

Where do you live that you can find a wild H. Grandis?

 

[viciousmantis]

California, in the valley area. I find them everywhere, and I am trying to start my own colony by breeding them, but that was my only male.

 

[AFK]

haha i'm pretty sure hierodula grandis does not live in southern california. i've lived in southern california all my life and i have never ever seen an hierodulas. in fact, i hardly ever ever see mantids here...i can probably count them all on one hand in fact. let's see, i've seen like 1 big female chinese mantis one morning on the tennis court wall, a brown twig/ground mantis in the morning next to a light (i still don't know what species they were, but they were extremely easily excitable and were small), a dead female Iris oratoria a friend found at his friend's front lawn, and a couple brown skinny mantises (might be the same species as the aforementioned brown twig/ground mantis...this guy was also easily excitable and was a crazy flyer) that i found in the span of 2 weeks since i moved down from LA to San Diego.

 

[Rick]

Yeah H. Grandis is not found in the US.

 

[Butterfly]

Ive found 5 wild Mantids over summer and fall here in LA just this year. One is a confirmed female European Mantis, the other small male may be an iris oratoria, the large green female I found on Halloween might be a limbata. I never truly know the species until I come here, with the exception of the European. She was easy enough to identify because of the spots on the insides of her arms.

 

[viciousmantis]

I'm sure that she's an H. Grandis. She matches the pictures of them I found on MantisKingdom.

 

[viciousmantis]

Ooops... I meant [he]

 

[Rick]

I'm sure that she's an H. Grandis. She matches the pictures of them I found on MantisKingdom.

Post a pic here then so we can see. If you found it outdoors in Cali its no grandis.

 

[AFK]

i'm not sure how familiar with mantises, but a lot of mantises may look very similar and difficult to differentiate (and color is more often than not not a good indicator of species) for newbies.

 

[JM]

Over here in MD I can't leave the house without stumbling accross scores of Idolomantis Diabolica and Rhombodera Basilis. They're ubiquitious much like the cockroaches and rats of Baltimore. We need to take a stand against the unlawful immigration of mantid illegals.

 

[wuwu]

Over here in MD I can't leave the house without stumbling accross scores of Idolomantis Diabolica and Rhombodera Basilis. They're ubiquitious much like the cockroaches and rats of Baltimore. We need to take a stand against the unlawful immigration of mantid illegals.

LOL :lol:

 

[viciousmantis]

Umm... sorry about this, but I don't know how to get a picture on here.