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Message: <blockquote data-quote="antjoss" data-source="post: 19720" data-attributes="member: 50"><p>I'm getting quite fed up of mantids being sick. In my experience its always fatal. I've lost three female orchids to this, and this morning I witnessed one of my sub-adult females let out a great steam of purple liquid, which didn't smell too great, so she'll probably die. She eat a moth straight after but I'm not sure if that good or bad. In smaller orchids the food seems to get stuck in the thorax (you can see it) so they eventually starve to death. I've only been feeding them hover flies, blue bottles, and moths. Never had a problem with the males though.</p></blockquote><p></p>