I came home and found her at the bottom 😩😩😩

I mean I already knew the life span is short because when I found her , she had wings aka adult life but damn

You’ve left an imprint on me . I didn’t know how cool mantis were until I had you 😔

Are these guys big enough to eat other bugs than wingless fruit flies? What should I try?
I tried mini mealworms they seemed interested for a little bit but then didn’t
yes I know mealworms aren’t the best but I was trying something other than flies

Deroplatys Dessicata

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Female

3 people including me think presub

Hi! I've had my L4/5 orchid mantis for 2 days now, her behaviour seems normal, however she has refused to eat yesterday and today. yesterday I just brushed it off as her not being hungry yet, but im concerned about her not wanting to eat today. I'm wondering why she refuses to eat at all. The temperature is at around 26C, the humidity is at 70%, she has plenty of space to hang and climb on, I've offered fruit flies, and the smallest locusts I could find. I tried putting her in a smaller container with a fruit fly first and then a locust just incase she was struggling to get to it, but still nothing. I tried to use tweezers to hold the prey in front of her but again nothing. She just ignores it and goes about her normal mantis activities.. what do I do?!!??!

Now finally I could get second opinions😅 sorry if it's blurry little one keeps running around it's hard for me to hold my jewelry lob on the camera og my phone using one hand

She looks like shes in pretty bad shape. Pretty sure shes a European mantis. So cute, she looks like mine

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This is Alfonso, he's a Double Shield mantis, who's been an adult for about a month and a half. On Monday I discovered he was missing most of his tibia and his Tarsus on his left raptorial.

I know that since he's an adult, it won't ever regenerate. He seems to be doing fine with his remaining raptorial. I'm just at a loss for how he lost it. I fed him Sunday morning, and he had both of them then. He did however seem to have the affected limb stuck in the tulle mesh. I gently nudged it to free it, and I was very gentle and it seemed fine afterwards, he even used it to grab his food.

It's kind of eating me a bit to think I might have hurt my poor boy. Is there any possibility of something else happening? Some people have suggested he just got overzealous while he was feeding and chewed it off, but I've never heard of that happening before.

If anyone has any insight into what happened and how to prevent it from happening again, I would appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

first time mantis owner here - my ghost mantis Tink hasn’t eaten in probably about a week now, i’m pretty sure she just molted (although i didn’t see it or find the molt) as it seemed like she kind of just grew overnight. she won’t eat literally anything i offer her, fruit flies, bluebottle flies, bluebottle larvae, mealworms, dubias - anything. is this normal for them to just reject food?

Can someone help me determine the exact species of this mantis?

last time i fed her was 10/05-- 9 days ago. and she doesnt look that much less full than she was right after feeding. she's been calling a lot over the past several weeks so i think she's just holding her ooth to mate,,, but i dont plan on pairing her (i dont have a male and im not gonna go outside and find one at the risk of stevens health) so itll def be infertile. atp im getting a little concerned about oothbinding. shes still pooping and behaving normally though. about when can i expect her to lay? is theyre anything else i can do for her? or could this be a different health issue?

Today four days after his final moult i have fed him a locust. I was also lucky enough to catch him moulting, also some advice on feeding male mantis would be appreciated

UPDATE!!

Found in Rockville, MD

Hi I’ve had her for a month now and I came up home and she was on the ground of her enclosure. She’s not moving and her limbs are twitching. Any advice??

She spends most of her day just staring at it. It’s like a lil TV for her I guess

So, this is strange, but I remember it so vividly. I was a child about 8, so it must've been my imagination. But the memory is still so clear that it makes me wonder.

I caught a praying mantis in my backyard, put it in a jar with a stick inside and holes punched into the lid for air. I was so amazed by them and thought I'd keep it just for a little while to admire. Didn't plan on keeping it as a pet.

Anyhow, I get called inside for dinner, rush to my room and put the captured mantis on my shelf. I ate quickly then head back to take closer look at the mantis. As soon as I enter the room I see it's eyes are glowing bright red like two of those red diode lights. My child brain instantly thought. "Oh this mantid's pissed, I'd better just let it go!" So I take the jar outside and the mantid's eyes are just glowing red, I can still see the glow even in the pre twilight, the sun is still setting so it's fairly still light outside. It just jump flies out of the jar over the fence and even as it flew away I could still see the red eyes.

I later read the book 'The Red Hourglass', (awesome book about predators btw). There's a chapter about the praying mantis, I was waiting for the part about the glowing eyes, but of course it didn't exist. It's a weird child hood memory that I just thought was real for half my life about Mantids; so I figured I'd share here.

We got him and were told hes a boy but we aren't sure completely. Hes still small so its hard to get a proper photo.

I've had a ghost mantis for a little over a year and she's always been very chill. Hangs in the same spot all day in her enclosure, waits for food to come to her, when I handle her she just chills. But I just got an orchid mantis and they're a menace. All day they just wander around their terrarium, when I handle them they jump all over the place- even a leap of faith to the ground -and they're not particularly interested in their food. My ghost would eat until she popped if I let her, but the orchid barely looks at the red racers I feed them.

I just want to know if this is normal behavior for them?

My little lady Gracie (Tenodera sinensis) has been acting very lethargic the past few days, which is very unlike her. She laid an ootheca ~2 weeks ago and seemed fine afterwards. I tried to feed her yesterday and she was completely uninterested and isn't drinking water unless its beaded up directly in front of her. The dirtiness on the glass is just water droplets I sprayed to increase humidity in case she needed that.

Extra context in case it changes anything: she was caught outside as an adult, so she could just be at the end. If there's anything I can do for her, though, please let me know.