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Message: <blockquote data-quote="agalbo" data-source="post: 19920" data-attributes="member: 604"><p>I am a teacher, and my students found a praying mantis last week.  We set up a habitat for it.  They  have been misting it every day.  At first the mantis was energetic and had an enormous appetite, eating tons of bugs.  A few days ago it ate 4 large crickets.  Now for the last two days it has been hanging from the top of the cage in the same spot.  It has has not eaten.  It's head and legs seem to be in a fixed position.  It has not moved from the location, but it it is not totally motionless.  Its antennas are waving gently and its abdomen seems to expand and contract.  Also, if the habitat is moved, it seems to "tense up.  What is it doing?  Is it molting? dying? sick? injured? getting ready to lay eggs?</p></blockquote><p></p>