Lobata Crooked after molt... :-/

[Mime454]

Is there anything I can do to make her next molt reparative? I think that she is subadult, but I could be wrong.

 

[brancsikia339]

Just mist the mantis before next molt so that she will not mismolt. Hopefully she can repair herself

 

[alan2296]

Poor mantis yeah mist her like brancsikia said

 

[ismart]

She is a sub-adult. I do hope you are not keeping her in a 32oz deli cup? She could easily fix her self in the last molt. Make sure she has plenty of vertical hanging space.

 

[Mime454]

She is a sub-adult. I do hope you are not keeping her in a 32oz deli cup? She could easily fix her self in the last molt. Make sure she has plenty of vertical hanging space.

I am, what would you keep her in? The problem with her molts is that she loves to be right at the bottom of any enclosure, so she doesn't have room to molt.

 

[ismart]

A 32oz deli cup is to small for a female lobata. I put mine in a net cube. No issues with miss molts.

 

[agent A]

she doesnt look too bad

 

[azn567]

She is a sub-adult. I do hope you are not keeping her in a 32oz deli cup? She could easily fix her self in the last molt. Make sure she has plenty of vertical hanging space.

Not sub-adult yet.

 

[Mime454]

Not sub-adult yet.

I've been counting, and it is definitely L7.

 

[gripen]

Please get a side shot of her.

 

[Krissim Klaw]

Make sure she has enough room and the proper conditions and she will have a good shot of fixing herself in the next molt. You may even see a touch of straightening over the next couple days if she is given enough room to properly stretch herself out. I've noticed with mantises that have slight tweaks that they can naturally make some improvements within the first few days after shedding while the exo skeleton still has some give before fully hardening. A deli cup is way too small for a girl that size, in my opinion.

 

[aNisip]

When my second sub adult lobata molted to adult, she was an inch from the bottom of the cube...so I let her finish molting to adult ...but after she got out of her exoskeleton.... I quickly placed her near the top so she could dry and straighten herself out and she looks good...

 

[azn567]

SUb-adults shield is noticeably larger. Also her wing buds are too small to be sub-adult.

I had a large amount of pre-subs and sub females and all the pre-subs looked like yours right now.

 

[Mime454]

SUb-adults shield is noticeably larger. Also her wing buds are too small to be sub-adult.

I had a large amount of pre-subs and sub females and all the pre-subs looked like yours right now.

I bought her when she was supposed to be L4, but maybe she was L3.

Do males and females have the same number of molts in this species? Because they've molted the same number of times since I received them and he is a sub adult.

 

[azn567]

In many mantis species the females have more molts than the males, some have 1 more some have 2 more, etc.

 

[Drumkitchen]

Trans-Am is right, she is pre-sub.

 

[agent A]

lobata females have 2 extra molts