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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2010, 08:53:14 AM »
Well actually, sometime this week I'm getting a shipment of a new (to the US and other parts of North America) species of mantis from Singapore. Mind, they CAN NOT be released into the wild. The hobby is a rather under-the-table kind of hobby, but if like a cop comes to your house and sees you have an exotic mantis, I doubt they'd haul you off.

Anyhoo. Back to what I was saying. I'm getting the species Deroplatys lobata. The guy I'm getting them from is hoping that I can breed them and distribute them across the US.

You don't HAVE to buy food. I do get crix and flies for mine, but I breed my own flies so that was a one-time buy. Also, whenever I see a bug outside I whip out a small deli cup (I keep'em in my bag at all times) and catch it for my mantids. Also, they like honey on toothpicks for treats.
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« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2010, 08:05:10 PM »
Here's a big one I found it on the same porch.  I used to see lots of different kinds when I lived there. Anyone recognize this species? I think it was about 4-5 inches long.
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2010, 10:28:04 PM »
Ah, yes! A beautiful adult specimen of the Stagmomantis carolina, Carolina Mantis.
I'm thinking that's also a male.
Beautiful find!
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« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2010, 09:23:23 PM »
Yeah mine are all the common species for the area, I wouldn't breed if they were exotics-too risky. Extra exotic babies have to be frozen. Cry
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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2010, 11:33:02 PM »
What do you mean by the extra exotics have to be frozen?
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« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2010, 04:16:39 PM »
If by chance you were to breed exotics, even accidently, some of the babies have to be frozen since they cannot be released and a thousand homes are hard to come by.
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« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2010, 09:05:42 PM »
Well.. Actually, there's a whole community for that.
People will pay astounding amounts of money for exotic nymphs.
I bought all of mine.
And only one species of the 3 can be released.
So please, don't freeze your nymphs!
Send them to me!
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« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2010, 11:49:12 PM »
I saw this picture on Google the other day... I loved it, I just thought I would show it to you. =3
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« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2010, 11:52:12 PM »
That's actually M religiosa's threat pose.
That is one p.o.'d mantis!
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