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Not a mantis expert, but looks like female Parasphendale affinis

I havent tested it myself but apparently these guys are really attracted to light. My ento professor said if you put down a white sheet with a lamp on it next to a pile of rocks in the woods they crawl towards the light en masse. Also up the sides of buildings if the habitat is right.

I've kept these guys in my dorm when I was a college student. I fed them fish flakes and basically any detritus I would find in the woods. They drank from a soaked paper towel. Never had any success breeding them unfortunately and they seem prone to rubbing their scales off without adequate...

Thank you! I've read that ivories have an incredible number of offspring! I am looking forward to watching them grow. I have Collembola in with my millipedes, but they seem to ignore the babies and vice versa so I don't foresee any issues. I (unexpectedly) collected three Narceus annularis a few...

My ivories also just had their first babies! I got them on July 15th and found the first babies on September 5th. I only have 5 ivories (and only two appear to be adult females) so I don't think I have over a thousand babies. For now they seem to be doing well with the adults, but I will...

I checked them all ventrally and they all look pretty much the same, meaning they are either all male or all female. They all have thin and long pedipalps (especially #3) but their ventral side seems more like the female on the right than the male on the left in this picture. I don't think they...

Thanks for the replies! Does it have to be on a molt to identify the sex ventrally? I tried checking them and it looked not nearly as clear cut as those pictures. I will try to put them in a clear dish and get pictures later if I can.

Hello! I am a long-time lurker who visits to look a people's pictures of spiders and scorpions. I've kept hissers and other roaches and I'm starting to venture into keeping arachnids. I made an account to share my new Damon whipscorpions and because I am having some sexing trouble with one of...