White spots?

[H_Ercule_S]

Long story short I found a male mantis yesterday inside at work that had escaped me over a week ago on the way to get a deli cup. I picked him up and had him eating a grasshopper on my shoulder while I watered. After he finished he jumped to the ground and landed on a wet spot, I stopped and turned around and it looked like he'd died, all his legs and raptors were splayed out and his face was on the ground. I poked him and he immediately displayed at me (so cute still...) So I guessed he was drinking and was fine. I brought him him home to feed him over the next couple days because I assume they're like humans when it comes to being reintroduced to food after starving and it'd be bad to just feed him til he stops, to find that he has white cyst looking spots on his legs and raptors. Is this because he may have crawled on bug poison or because of the starvation and dehydration?

 

[dmina]

Do you have a pic... that would help us...

 

[H_Ercule_S]

No he's at home I'm working... I don't think I have the capability to take a nice pic. They look like white-heads on humans but proportioned to a mantis

 

[mantisman 230]

Hmm, might be part of the patterning though?

 

[H_Ercule_S]

I haven't seen it on any mantises previously and I have image based eidetic memory, hence the knowing it was the same mantis. I'm unsure if I should re-release him if it will grow and hinder him to the point of starvation.

 

[Sticky]

Watch his behavior and let us know how he does. Maybe you can get a reasonable picture. Keep him fed up and watered.

 

[H_Ercule_S]

I released him after a few days because the spots started getting smaller, I think it was from being around an aisle full of pesticides for a week.