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Chaos_Warrior

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Just thought I'd share a pic of my Mantis after it's seventh instar, the first sight of it's wings, very pretty :)

 
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Welcome. Your mantis is an adult so it is much older than a third instar.

 
Thanks for that :) How can you tell she is a female please ?
To find out the gender, you have to look at the abdomen. Females will have 6 segments, and males will have 7 or 8.

I've never kept this species, so I'm not sure if there are any more differences between genders. But for a lot of species, males have larger antennae as well.

 

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