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:)  Yeah, I guess that it just depends on the personality of the mantis! I have a violin who will eat a moth that is almost bigger than her! And this species was supposed to be communal! She ate her sister within an hour of them being in the same cage! 

- MantisGirl13

 
Yes, 24 hours is sufficient enough time for mantids to dry out. I wait at least that long before trying to feed them but some wait 2 days. Sometimes a mantis is immediately hungry after a molt sometimes it takes a few days before they start eating again.

 
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Hunter and her shadow being cute ;)

 
Mantids are not always smart with looking for a place to molt. Hunter was hanging too low on her fake plant in her cup. I had to take her fake plant out to  prevent her head came on the ground. I let her molt while holding the fake  plant after that I taped the fake plant higher in her cup so she can dry there.. Good I saw this happeningbefore she molted.

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here 1 picje of freshley molted diego: 1 weird thing I see on him. He has a black spot in his right eye.

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Hunter could have ended in a mismolt, but good I saw it in time. She still hangs low on her plant but that is ok now. But she lost most of her brown color sadly enough. I think she is ready to move to a bigger home now

 
Can you post a pic of her now? I am glad that you noticed her in time! Good job!

- MantisGirl13

 
I will give Hunter some time out of cup time and will take some pics. She is loosing her brown color. With every molt she looks more blank/whitish like Diego.

 
Time for a pic of Diego: here is he was enjoying his half roach:

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He still have a little black spot in his right eye. But he is recognizeble now without looking at his abdomen. ;) The older Hunter and Diego get the more they look like twins. ;)

 
Since a couple of days Diegos wing buds turned green. Will he be getting a green wing cover? The color still fits with the rest of his body color ;) It would be nice if is wing cover could be that color green. Hunters wing buds are stll the color of her body.

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Little Diego molted to adulthood. I will see what his color  of his wing cover will be when he done with inflating his wings... :)

 
His wing color is very light soft green. He has only a green drop on it. Hunters wingbuds turned green too. Her turn to molt is coming too.Think her wing color will be the same as diegos

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The bubble dried out. it is  dark green spot now. I see that the spot in his eye is gone too now.

 
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Congratulations on the adult molt! Diego’s new wings are beautiful, he’s a nice looking little guy! Good luck with Hunter’s molt!

 
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