WHAT!!!

[PrayingMantisPets]

I got home with a hole in my mantis and one of its legs missing!!

 

[PrayingMantisPets]

Once again for a whole year i cant mate a mantis. It was a spiny flower mantis male.

 

[hibiscusmile]

What do u mean it had a hole in it?

 

[PrayingMantisPets]

in between his two back legs on the side of his body (near wing base) there is a hole.

 

[Krissim Klaw]

Was he with a female or did he manage to do this alone in his enclousure?

 

[PrayingMantisPets]

He was all by himself. I dont know what happened!

 

[Aryia]

Picture? I had a female rhombodera who managed to impale herself on a (not-so-sharp) stick... I have no idea how tbh.

 

[Krissim Klaw]

Given one of his legs is missing I wonder if he somehow got it stuck somewhere and while struggling to get free that is the part that gave.

 

[kitkat39]

I know this scenario all too well... two words: Evil Siblings

 

[Hellemose]

if hes alone it can hardly be a sibling, but im thinking cricket or some of those small annoying fruit flie sized flies that arent fruit flies, i have lost some snails and a tarantula to those, they went in and laid eggs in the T's burrow then while it was molting their spikes / maggots started munching away on the T, same deal with the snails, so now i have secured all my slings/juvies and remaining 2 snails with pantihose as an extra layer on the vent screening.

 

[PrayingMantisPets]

There was nothing in his container. Only hotglue screen and coconut fiber substrate. no crickets have ever touched my mantises in ages.

 

[agent A]

i had a creo male go crazy and chew 3 legs off right where they attached to the thorax

he then managed to tear an antenna off and died

maybe he was overwhelmed by pheremones?

 

[dmina]

Wow ... crazy!???

 

[mantisman 230]

interesting, shame this occurred though, random things like this usually have no explanation.

 

[PrayingMantisPets]

Aliens!

 

[Jay]

Bacteria?

 

[agent A]

Bacteria?

demonic possession??

 

[Jay]

demonic possession??

Oh whatever!

Perhaps he wanted a snack?

I had an older male ghost lose 2 of its middle legs because of some kind of bacteria eating them up (over several days). I do not fully understand why this happens - even with plenty of ventilation - but sometimes it just does. :mellow:

 

[Obsidian]

Picked up a parasite somewhere maybe.