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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MantidLord" data-source="post: 161331" data-attributes="member: 1732"><p>I've never had an "eggbound" female in any of the three us species I've kept. And I gutload my mantids until they refuse to eat. My chinese female has been laying ooths (just laid her fourth) and I feed her on an average day, two adult locusts and an adult female house cricket. She's like a balloon afterwards. When she's finished I give her some water to wash it down with and she's perfect. True mantids in the wild don't always eat as much as we feed them in captivity. But what about the females that get lucky enough to catch the large prey items? e.g., lizards, hummingbirds, frogs, etc? Do they get eggbound after eating them? That's a serious question because I don't think anyone has tested that out. However until it is proven, nothing can be concluded.</p></blockquote><p></p>