HELP! Sick mantids!

[MantisGirl13]

The female thistle passed this morning. I am really sad. i will miss her.'

- MantisGirl13

 

[Mantis Lady]

Yes. My ghosts were very happy and fat yesterday! We don't get many mosquitos in our house, but we get them in our camper when we go camping all summer!

- MantisGirl13

Camping horror: caravan/camper/tent full with mosquitos and hunting them all night. few years ago we were on a camping in Hungary. We didn't sleep at all. It was crazy so many mosquitos came inside that night. The next day we moved to another camping.

The female thistle passed this morning. I am really sad. i will miss her.'

- MantisGirl13

This is sad, sorry for your loss.

 

[Synapze]

@MantisGirl13 So sorry. She was beautiful. 

 

[MantisGirl13]

@Synapze She was a beauty. 

@Little Mantis Wow! I HATE mosquitoes when they bite me! I don't often come home from camping without at least a dozen bites. 

- MantisGirl13

 

[cwebster]

Am very sorry for all the recent losses by everyone here.  I lost a small ghost after a molt last week. They are so fragile and so lovely. Wish mantises all made it to adulthood and lived for years instead of months. 

 

[Mantis Lady]

A lot of mantis deads lately..

@cwebstermismolts: it is not fun to loose a mantis that way. sorry for your loss.

. They are so fragile and so lovely. Wish mantises all made it to adulthood and lived for years instead of months. 

Yeah, I wish it was years too....instead of months.

 

[MantisGirl13]

A lot of mantis deads lately..

@cwebstermismolts: it is not fun to loose a mantis that way. sorry for your loss.

Yeah, I wish it was years too....instead of months.

I wish that too!

- MantisGirl13

 

[MantisGirl13]

Hi, all! I have another sick mantis, so I thought I'd bring this thread back up. This time it is one of the newest members of my mantis family, an eremiaphila L2. I just got four of this species from Yen Saw a few days ago. Last night, one died, and I woke up this morning to find that one had molted to L3 and another had lost use of its back legs. The poor, tiny, pitiful mantis cannot zoom around her cage anymore, and she is quickly getting weak. I don't know what to do!

Also, I just got some Spiny Flower mantids from Yen Saw a week or so ago, and I have lost two of the five I received for no seeable reason. Anyone have any ideas?

- MantisGirl13

 

[MantisGirl13]

The little eremiaphila didn't make it  

- MantisGirl13

 

[Jaywo]

SO sorry for your loss. For the Desert runners... Did you put sand (sterilized) on the bottom and keep the environment very hot (95-100F) with zero moisture? If not, try that. 

It may help to give them a quiet space away from other mantids. They tend to freak out and then run around and bump into things. You probably have a big cage for them to run.

For the spiny mantis, they may have been really stressed during transport. I have 6 from Deshawn and they are in L3-L4 and I just keep them out of direct sun (they tend to over heat) but have the temp around 70F-75F during the day. Temp drop at night. Spray every other day and feed at the same time. 

Please give us an update on your mantids. I have had mantids die for no reason at all myself and it is frustrating and sad.

 

[Mantis Lady]

Sorry for your loses. I don't know why they died.? Keep us updated on your mantids. I hope no more mantis deads.

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

Thats sad Mantisgirl13!!

I hope no more eremiaphilia die because they are cute and its plain sad.

 

[MantisGirl13]

I have sand in the enclosures and I am not sure how hot it is, but it is directly under the heat lamp, so it is pretty hot. It shouldn't have any moisture. For the spinys, they are doing well now. They have eaten some small moths and fruit flies, and their colors are starting to show! No more mantids are dead this morning. I will try increasing the heat in the eremiaphila enclosures.

Thanks for your hep, @Jaywo!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Jaywo]

I think my eremaiphila enclosure was 100-102F. I think you are doing everything they need. Hoping there is no more losses. 

 

[MantisGirl13]

Well, on the bright side, I had 32 new Phyllocrania paradoxa nymphs hatch this morning! 

- MantisGirl13

 

[Graceface]

@MantisGirl13 Congrats on the hatch! Glad you have some good news to share

 

[Mantis Lady]

gratz on the hatch

 

[MantisGirl13]

Thanks!

- MantisGirl13