a community for mantis lovers, and owners to share pictures, articles, discuss breeding, trade nymphs and oothecas, DIY projects and everything inbetween this wonderful hobby!

3/18/12 - This is a subreddit I started 3 months ago, please bear with me as information populates, it will start slow I'm sure but let's help each other in this wonderful hobby and post some good stuff up! Also bear with me! I'm learning CSS as I go so sorry if things look wonky here and there sometimes. if you have any feedback let me know thanks!

The Mantis

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Insecta
• Subclass: Pterygota
• Infraclass: Neoptera
• Superorder: Dictyoptera
• Order: Mantodea

Faqs and useful info

• General Mantis Caresheet (Lots of info!)

Part1

Part2

Part3

Part4

• list of commonly kept mantises

• is it legal in the US to own an exotic mantis?

Useful Links

• Mantis Pets forum

• mantidforum

• Uk mantis forum

• insect cage blueprints

• fruit fly culturing medium recipes

• live feeder insect nutritional value chart

Friends of r/Mantids

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• Pets
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• Bugwars
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