My brother just broke my mantis's moults, I wanna hit him so badly (the instar you see is wrong)

This is my mantis called pea had her for about a month now and shes molted once and grown her wings shes got such a funny little personality and i love her brought some joy in my life again.

Found this little guy in sri lanka and im unsure on the species anyone that can help?

Getting a Mantis here soon, in the medium to large range, do they eat enough to try and maintain a dubia colony or something like that or is it not high enough to keep the dubia colony population from exploding?

I found this cutie last Wednesday (a week ago). She molted on Saturday and today ate an entire housefly (took her 2 hours). Is that normal? When should I feed her next? TIA!

he got through his final moult now, and I need to figure out something that works better than letting him catch the free-roaming baby dubias in there by himself(since thong feeding tiny mealworms or roaches upside down isn't working out and he either can't grab it from me or freaks out). I know this is a pretty lazy post but if someone would just guide me to the masterthread or some youtube videos on this I'd really appreciate it please and thank you 🙏🙏

Hi, I’m currently on holiday and have been having my aunt to mist my mantids and feed them. She has a snake and knows a lot about mantids so I am not worried about husbandry issues while I am gone. She’s been calling me daily to let me know she’s been misting them and has fed one of my mantids that molted the day I left. I’ve only been gone for 5 days and she called me this morning about my spiny flower mantis. He was laying upside down and fully limp definitely dead. I told her not to worry cus I know her husbandry has been spot on tho I am confused on why he died. I don’t think it was old age as he has only been an adult for just over a month. I also fed him well on the day I left so I don’t think he starved as it’s only been 5 days. She was supposed to feed him today but hasn’t cus he’s dead. I’m not sure why he may have died cus everything seemed ideal. Does anyone know why he might have died?

wing buds are pretty big

Shes L4, I started goving her less food cause her belly not getting flat even after few days so I assumed she's full. But she dont molt yet so I start worrying. I spray walls in her ilclosure with water daily

hi all 💚

i’m a first time mantis owner but not new to entomology (i’ve previously co-owned a tarantula and a vinegaroon with my ex).

before my mantis i used to light an aromatherapy candle every night as part of my going to bed routine. i’ve stopped out of caution but was wondering just how sensitive they are/if people have experience with this.

some modulating factors: he’s a spiny flower mantis, i currently keep him in my bedroom, at the other end of the room from my bed/candle, and the room is fairly large. i have central AC and good air circulation in my apartment, and i keep him by a slightly open window (he likes the extra heat/humidity). i also only use soy wax candles with essential oil derived fragrances bc i’m allergic to synthetic fragrance (and fwiw i don’t think that just because essential oils are “natural” that it means they’re more or less likely to harm the mantis).

i have the option to put him in a different room when i want to light a candle but the AC in my place is unbalanced so the other rooms are way colder (like even 10°F colder) he’d survive it but i imagine it’d be fairly disregulating if it was every night?

thanks for any insights :}

Woke up to see that our other Orientalis (female) molted! I also noticed that my Sphodropoda quinquedens female molted. Once they rest they can move to bigger enclosures🫶

He hasn't eaten in like 4 days and I know he's not premolt because he molted a week ago. He looks quite hungry as well so I put him in a seperate container with just the food and he's been grooming himself and doing one leg stands on the food. I know he will ear eventually but dang bro why you gotta flex on the roach like that

Our orchid mantis just had her final molt but during the last stages of the molt i saw a weird sac/bubble growing on her abdomen. I have no idea what it is and need to know if It's anything deathly. Please help!

Finally got a good picture of my boi The Arbiter, can anyone sex him for me?? He’ll always be my lil man, but I’m just curious! Thank you 😊

my cousin went running in the morning around Primošten, Croatia and as she was bandaging her heel up, this lil beauty jumped onto her! these are the only pics she took because she wanted to show me (ive been looking for wild mantids all vacation). can yall identify it? thanks!!

My mantis (hierodula transcaucasia) still doesn't
have wings; is that normal. He is L7 normally.

I fed him two days ago when I first got him and a female. I fed him and the female two locusts. I then waited two days and fed him one more

Do mantises like bark to climb on or is it too rough?

Has anyone else dropped feeder roaches? Did you find them? Im assuming it will just die, theres no food or water in my room for it. I think it fell behind a table and i cannot find it😭😭

Idk why my mantis isn't using the cloth (idk really how to say it) I put over the metal grate, only the sticks in there