Curiosity
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My current favorite mantis, Nansen II, is acting kinda strange. It's similar but also dissimiliar to how Patricia Mindelle behaved right before dying.
1. Patricia Mindy lost her ability to climb. A couple hours ago, I noticed Nansen hanging on two legs. Since MantisGirl13 diagnosed Mindy's condition, which began exactly that way, as pesticide caused, I assumed the same for Nansen and acted on this story where someone almost killed their mantis with flea killer and ran the mantis under some cold water and that saved the mantis. In other words, I doused Nansen pretty good. (I have no pets besides my bugs.) She did, after that, hang by four legs for the next hour or so, but then went back to two legs. Her ability to climb or grip cardboard is diminished, although she still clings easily on cloth.
2. Patricia Mindelle refuse to eat or defecate. The news here is much more hopeful on Nansen. I convinced her to eat some honey, and I got some water and some milk into her. Shortly after drinking the milk, about five minutes after, she passed some very watery stool. Was that long enough for the milk to have been giving her diarrhea, or was it something else?
3. Patricia Mindelle became increasingly lethargic. She ended up basically in a coma. Or dead; I couldn't tell. Nansen will still walk and try to climb, but she's kinda subdued. It could just be the fact that she's my tamest mantis talking though. When standing upright, as in not upside down, she lets her legs go sort of flat and her abdomen rests on the ground. I get the feeling this is more fatigue than the inability that was clear in Mindy's case, because when prodded she will stand up normally.
4. Random note. I took Nansen along on a 2 mile bike ride in fairly hot weather right before the "symptoms?" started. I'm not sure if that could possibly have caused anything, but I'm not sure it's unimportant, either.
Also, Nansen is older than Patricia if that matters at all. I estimate her at L7, although I can't be certain.
Is this another pesticide problem (she has been living on wild bugs) and how do I solve it? Really that's the only question I need answered.
@MantisGirl13, you seem to be the ruling expert on this site. . . is there any way to get Nansen back to normal quickly (or is this a molt)? That is the only question in this post I really care about an answer to; the rest is all academic.
1. Patricia Mindy lost her ability to climb. A couple hours ago, I noticed Nansen hanging on two legs. Since MantisGirl13 diagnosed Mindy's condition, which began exactly that way, as pesticide caused, I assumed the same for Nansen and acted on this story where someone almost killed their mantis with flea killer and ran the mantis under some cold water and that saved the mantis. In other words, I doused Nansen pretty good. (I have no pets besides my bugs.) She did, after that, hang by four legs for the next hour or so, but then went back to two legs. Her ability to climb or grip cardboard is diminished, although she still clings easily on cloth.
2. Patricia Mindelle refuse to eat or defecate. The news here is much more hopeful on Nansen. I convinced her to eat some honey, and I got some water and some milk into her. Shortly after drinking the milk, about five minutes after, she passed some very watery stool. Was that long enough for the milk to have been giving her diarrhea, or was it something else?
3. Patricia Mindelle became increasingly lethargic. She ended up basically in a coma. Or dead; I couldn't tell. Nansen will still walk and try to climb, but she's kinda subdued. It could just be the fact that she's my tamest mantis talking though. When standing upright, as in not upside down, she lets her legs go sort of flat and her abdomen rests on the ground. I get the feeling this is more fatigue than the inability that was clear in Mindy's case, because when prodded she will stand up normally.
4. Random note. I took Nansen along on a 2 mile bike ride in fairly hot weather right before the "symptoms?" started. I'm not sure if that could possibly have caused anything, but I'm not sure it's unimportant, either.
Also, Nansen is older than Patricia if that matters at all. I estimate her at L7, although I can't be certain.
Is this another pesticide problem (she has been living on wild bugs) and how do I solve it? Really that's the only question I need answered.
@MantisGirl13, you seem to be the ruling expert on this site. . . is there any way to get Nansen back to normal quickly (or is this a molt)? That is the only question in this post I really care about an answer to; the rest is all academic.
