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Health Issues
Problems with ghost mantis
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<blockquote data-quote="Leah" data-source="post: 3205" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>Rick,</p><p></p><p>When you take her out and hold her right side up on your hand, what does her abdomen do? Does it stand straight up like normal? Or does it tilt or fall back to yout hand?</p><p></p><p>Shake her enclosure gently, and watch to what degree the abdomen sways. Ghosts have a condition where they lose control of the abdomen, have symptoms as you describe, and ultimately, die. I'm not 100% what causes this, but its nearly always in L4-subadults and nearly always males, or green/very light tan colored females.</p><p></p><p>I've got a few theories on this, but nothing has worked out so far. It should not affect your other mantids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leah, post: 3205, member: 4"] Rick, When you take her out and hold her right side up on your hand, what does her abdomen do? Does it stand straight up like normal? Or does it tilt or fall back to yout hand? Shake her enclosure gently, and watch to what degree the abdomen sways. Ghosts have a condition where they lose control of the abdomen, have symptoms as you describe, and ultimately, die. I'm not 100% what causes this, but its nearly always in L4-subadults and nearly always males, or green/very light tan colored females. I've got a few theories on this, but nothing has worked out so far. It should not affect your other mantids. [/QUOTE]
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