should I feed her? she looks so skinny but she moult less than 1 day ago

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Lalapink

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my giant asian mantis girl never eat enough. So, I don't know if I ever feed her enough. about 4 to 5 days ago she stop eating and last night at 2am she finally moult. now is 10 hours later. she looks super skinny. I know you should wait at least one day for its skin harden before feeding. but I don't know how soft or harden skin looks like and she seems she need food. Do you think if I should feed her or not? the photo below is how she looks now. 

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Absolutely. Smaller nymphs sclerotize quickly. 🤙
 She didn’t eat much flies, even now. I thought she may lost interest. But now I start to think she is not as good on catching fruit flies as before. When I was watching her, she had fail to catch the fruit fly 3 to 4 times already. Now I tried to keep her at smaller enclosure with more flies and see if it helps her to catch them. I found she still manage to catch some to eat once occasion. But she still doesn’t eat enough. Her abdomen still looks flat. I just ordered some blue bottle flies today. And maybe go to buy waxworm or mealworm for her at local store tomorrow. But I don’t have car. So I need to take a 29 mins bus plus 23 minutes walk. 

 
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