Is my mantis sick?

[Morty Rehahn]

I have a female European mantis who I've had for about three weeks. I don't know how old she is, but she had full wings when we got her. Today, I found her on her side on the bottom of her enclosure, and when I picked her up she was very unresponsive and lethargic. She cannot/will not hold herself up on all legs, and she won't eat honey or bugs. She is having spasms where she twitches her raptors or twitches her thorax/head up and down, and her raptors seemed to be flopping to the sides without control.

The best I can hope for is that she's molting, and just fell from the top of her enclosure. I put her on the floor, belly down, with her legs on either side so they are not folded beneath her, and misted her lightly. She seems to have rightened her raptors and her head isn't drooping, but she is lying on her belly rather than standing on her legs.

I haven't fed her for about four days because all we had was crickets and she would throw them up every time we fed them to her. I offered her an earthworm and she wouldn't take it, and today I emergency caught her a stink bug but she wouldn't eat that either. Instead, she snapped her raptors shut, and stopped paying attention. Her silkworms are supposed to arrive tomorrow.

Also, she seems to have something coming out of both her anus and reproductive organs. The part around her cercus that droops down has something dark on the tip, and I think she might have poop stuck in the part under her wings, on top of her abdomen. Neither of these seem to bother her, but they're unusual.

Is she okay? What can I do to help her?

(Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I'm new to this site)

 

[Arthropod Universe]

I don’t keep the species but maybe dip her abdomen in warm water she might have hairworms. Adults do not molt she is probably an old female that might expire soon

 

[paumotu]

She’ll not molt since she’s a full grown adult. It’s likely she is just passing of old age, the sluggishness is common among mantids towards the end of their natural lifespans

 

[darkness975]

I have a female European mantis who I've had for about three weeks. I don't know how old she is, but she had full wings when we got her. Today, I found her on her side on the bottom of her enclosure, and when I picked her up she was very unresponsive and lethargic. She cannot/will not hold herself up on all legs, and she won't eat honey or bugs. She is having spasms where she twitches her raptors or twitches her thorax/head up and down, and her raptors seemed to be flopping to the sides without control.

The best I can hope for is that she's molting, and just fell from the top of her enclosure. I put her on the floor, belly down, with her legs on either side so they are not folded beneath her, and misted her lightly. She seems to have rightened her raptors and her head isn't drooping, but she is lying on her belly rather than standing on her legs.

I haven't fed her for about four days because all we had was crickets and she would throw them up every time we fed them to her. I offered her an earthworm and she wouldn't take it, and today I emergency caught her a stink bug but she wouldn't eat that either. Instead, she snapped her raptors shut, and stopped paying attention. Her silkworms are supposed to arrive tomorrow.

Also, she seems to have something coming out of both her anus and reproductive organs. The part around her cercus that droops down has something dark on the tip, and I think she might have poop stuck in the part under her wings, on top of her abdomen. Neither of these seem to bother her, but they're unusual.

Is she okay? What can I do to help her?

(Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I'm new to this site)

She was already an adult when you got her. She will not molt again. She's dying of old age.

Also in the future avoid crickets as feeders for mantids.