Just An Off Feeling

[Curiosity]

@MrGhostMantis Sure.



Ice cream bucket from above.



From the side.



Lid from the top.



Lid underside.

Two of my healthy mantises are housed similarly. 

 

[Curiosity]

@MrGhostMantis I also did take that arm off. She sort of gnawed at the stump for a while, and it seemed to be bleeding the next morning. (Green fluid down her front.) Also she now has one tarsi. She had two yesterday.

 

[MantisGirl13]

Still sounds like old age to me, not much you can do about that. Give her some honey and lots of water because of the hemolymph loss. 

- MantisGirl13

 

[Curiosity]

@MrGhostMantis The joints where her front two walking legs have turned a sort of pinkish red and that arm stump is still bleeding. . . what should I do about the red and is bleeding 24 hours after an amputation normal in bugs? She was chewing her one back leg off too so I took that off as well. . . was that the right call?

 

[Curiosity]

@MantisGirl13 Is it probable that you're both right, and she's getting opportunistic infections in her old age?

 

[MantisGirl13]

@MantisGirl13 Is it probable that you're both right, and she's getting opportunistic infections in her old age?

Yes, probably. Either way, there's nothing you can really do for her.

- MantisGirl13