Hello everybody. I just joined this forum today. I just happended to stumble across it tonight. I been keeping mantids for over 25 years now. Usually I find one outside and keep it as a pet. Right now I have a female mantid. I think its an asian mantid. I been feeding her crickets from the pet store since its very cold out and I cant get fresh food outside. I feed her a small cricket every other day. She still seems pretty healthy this late in the year. The latest one on my mantids lived was up to January. I noticed they live about a year. Heres a link of my mantis jumping on a cricket.
Hello from NJ
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good shot! very accurate..welcome to mantid forum
Andrew
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Welcome. Thats a chinese mantis, Tenodera sinensis.
robo mantis
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Welcome
idolomantis
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welcome AND MAY THE MANTIS BE WHIT YOU!
is it me or are your mantis,s eyes black?
is it me or are your mantis,s eyes black?
Welcome, NJ!! NJ, also!! Yep! Sure is finally settling down here to the normal weather patterns for Dec.!! And that little guy/girl you found is more than likely T. Sinensis (Chinese Mantis) as our other members have pointed out. To date I have rescued one wayward female which left me and my little nephews with six ooths before she died last November!! The next one I caught on my neighbor's second floor window. We later opted to free her as she needed to do her thing before her time was up!! You're in the right place!!! 
What took u so long??!!
What took u so long??!!
I cannot read this! :blink: The color is to light! whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaWelcome, NJ!! NJ, also!! Yep! Sure is finally settling down here to the normal weather patterns for Dec.!! And that little guy/girl you found is more than likely T. Sinensis (Chinese Mantis) as our other members have pointed out. To date I have rescued one wayward female which left me and my little nephews with six ooths before she died last November!! The next one I caught on my neighbor's second floor window. We later opted to free her as she needed to do her thing before her time was up!! You're in the right place!!!
