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One of my beetles hatched from the pupa yesterday, everything seems ok except that she seems to be struggling to tuck one of her wings in. It doesn't look damaged or wet, it's just out. Is this something that will sort itself out soon or should I be concerned?

Oh I hope you didn't think I meant actually breaking the pupa, I meant like this: The beetle is visible inside the dirt cocoon, there's no pupa casing around it that I can see, and it keeps moving in there every now and again I would never do this with the fully formed cocoons since I have no...

This is my first time raising beetles from grubs, I haven't been able to find much info concerning the pupa stage. 6 of them are currently in that stage, at least 2 of them are looking to be nearly ready, and at least one of them is pretty much done. They're all in dirt cocoons (some are half...

I bought a 15x15x15cm tank about a year ago for a small mantis (I wouldn’t keep one in there now, that’s just what the people in the shop told me was good), currently I am using it for stick insect nymphs, but soon I won’t have anything to keep in it. Ideally I’d want something I can feed with...

I haven't tried alfalfa, but what I have found is that my sticks will eat pretty much any live plant I put in their tank, whether they're supposed to be able to eat it or not, including various types of small palm, a creeping fig, and a spider plant (as well as occasionally raiding the snails...

The smallest species I've kept is sungaya inexpectata, but they grow to 3 inches. Why are you looking for such small species, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm getting a madagascan marbled mantis soon, (L4-5 obviously), I just don't know what size food I should get for it I've kept a mantis before, but not one that would get that big (I used to have an Egyptian mantis, she died from old age a few months ago)