Hello,
I am a 5th year PhD student in Entomology at Cornell. Sadly I don't study Mantids because i made some bad life choices in undergrad
. I have 3 Giant Golden Hierodula mantids, and 3 Malaysian Dead leaf Mantids. I came here because all three of my Malaysian dead leafs are female, and I am looking to trade for a male.
My greatest life accomplishment was creatively saving a mantis with a bad molt. One of my Malaysian Dead leafs had a bad molt from L1 to L2. its legs were all bent and its thorax was bent. It couldn't stand up at all, or even hang upside down. I hand fed it for about 2 weeks, and then glued its feet to the top of a cage with wood glue and hung it upside down. I continued to hand feed it until it molted, but it managed to molt into into a fully healthy and functional L3, and more recently it molted into an adult. I call her Strugglebus.
Best,
Zoe Getman-Pickering
I am a 5th year PhD student in Entomology at Cornell. Sadly I don't study Mantids because i made some bad life choices in undergrad
. I have 3 Giant Golden Hierodula mantids, and 3 Malaysian Dead leaf Mantids. I came here because all three of my Malaysian dead leafs are female, and I am looking to trade for a male. My greatest life accomplishment was creatively saving a mantis with a bad molt. One of my Malaysian Dead leafs had a bad molt from L1 to L2. its legs were all bent and its thorax was bent. It couldn't stand up at all, or even hang upside down. I hand fed it for about 2 weeks, and then glued its feet to the top of a cage with wood glue and hung it upside down. I continued to hand feed it until it molted, but it managed to molt into into a fully healthy and functional L3, and more recently it molted into an adult. I call her Strugglebus.
Best,
Zoe Getman-Pickering
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