My mantis is not eating and lethargic, just how my other mantis died.

[Mitch65009]

I hope he recovered.

At the moment, he's still the same. He just sits there, all day, all night. I can get him to eat and drink easily now, so it's strange why he's still like this. 

 

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I have Iris oratoria that are naturalized in the desert here in AZ.  No, male adults are not fun pets, unfortunately.  And it definately looked like your male is infected from his abdomen. One thing that I have learned is that after the first 2 weeks of male adulthood, the males cannot handle eating crickets, even if the crickets are healthy. Do your adults eat anything else?  First make sure the crickets are healthy.  If they are eating each other, have any black spots on them, or look like any of their limbs are paralyzed, then I would not feed them to your mantids.  Sometimes, the younger healthier mantids can survive eating a bad cricket, but not if they are infected with the cricket paralysis virus called Acheta domesticus Densovirus (AdDNV).  Keep your crickets clean and as soon as they die remove the bodies, and their feces. 

I'm so sorry