Hi all, Yesterday I fed my chinese L4 or L5 ( not sure I'm new at this) a grasshopper that I caught out side. As she was munching away a larvae of some kind jumped out of the hopper and burrowed into the substrate. I wasn't sure if I should have taken the food away ( I probably wouldn't have been able to) so she ate it all. I moved her to a different cage. I did a bit of grasshopper research and couldn't find any thing specific on parasites in grasshoppers. The larvae or what ever it was was really fast at hiding and you can see him move under the vermiculite substrate. Pretty creepy, hope my mantid is all right. Any idea of what this might have been? :?