Sorry! Just after I posted I had to go to a camp and had no computer, so lets see if I can answere a few questions.
1.) A lot of people seem to be saying Chinese, but there is still a posibillity they could be other... Some of them are a little more green while others are brown, so I'll try and get several more pictures of different babies soon. (I took this one at night, so if I get some in the morning it will be easyer to see their true colors I hope.)
2.) So far all 7 I keept are doing fine, as is the 1 my dad keept. The others are loose in the yard, but my nabor has spoted one so we know at least a few have survived out there.
3.) I bought the outhca from a plant shop in California and had them mailed home to me in Colorado, and until I joined this forum I was admitedly nieve. I had no idea there were so many different species of praying mantis, so it never ocured to me to ask the seller what kind they were, (or I wouldn't be posting.)
4.)I don't see any black spots on the arms, but it's hard to tell and for all I know they may still develope some as they get older.
5.) I live in a town called Buena Vista, it's pretty small. And so you know, the word buena is spanish, but the person who long ago named our town WASN'T! So it's pronounced like 'B-u-na.' (Local pet-peave.)
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6.) This wasn't origionly part of the topic, but how old do they have to be before you can start to tell the males and femails apart? Are they getting close?
