The Mantis Family 2020

[Mantis Lady]

Here a pic of Oscar: it is hard to take a pic of a very small mantis.

 

[hysteresis]

Very nice, @Little Mantis!

 

[Mantis Lady]

I can't get a clearer picture of mantis 2. Butt isnt very clear sadly enough but looks cute.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Looks female!

 

[MantisGirl13]

Looks female!

I agree.

- MantisGirl13 

 

[Mantis Lady]

Thanks, I wanted to know gender then I have a couple but they need to grow up now and become healthy adults

Thinking about a name for the female.

The male is called Oscar.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

How about Tiger-Lilly 

 

[Mantis Lady]

The name is too long. I am thinking about an excotic name.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Lol, ok. Miranda?

 

[Mantis Lady]

I have decided her name is Esmeralda.

Sheralynn is eating like she never got something to eat. I toss a grasshopper in her home and within a minute she has it in het claws en starts eating.

Esmeralda en Oscar are eating fine too. But I will be glad when they are getting bigger and need bigger prey.

 

[Mantis Lady]

Esmeralda molted today. I will later take a pic of her.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Yay!

 

[Mantis Lady]

Sheralynn gave me an ooth last night. I am proud of my girl.

 

[Mantis Lady]

I was in the petshop today to get fruitflies, grasshoppers and fishfood for my hissers. I couldn't resist having a look at the mantids they are selling and I took 1 of them home.

Meet Clarissa the ghost mantis:

I think she is L4

 

[hysteresis]

Meet Clarissa the ghost mantis

She's pretty!

 

[Mantis Lady]

Yup, her color makes me think of Spooky. Too bad they had no green one.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

I miss spooky updates

 

[Mantis Lady]

You are getting Clarissa updates now. I hope she will make it to adulthood.

Spooky will never be forgotten.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

I hope so too! And from a great person like you, it is almost definitely going to happen! Rip spooky

 

[Mantis Lady]

The saddest thing is they only live for a year. But I still love them.

Seeing them growing up with good molts like Oscar just did.  He is L5 now. I hope he starts eating baby grasshoppers, like Clarissa. No pic of him yet. He needs to dry

Now waiting for Esmmeralda to grow out of the fruitflies. Don't think I need to wait long for her molt.