Here are the latest photos that i took this week...

Here are a couple of photos of them that I took yesterday. They molted on tuesday and changed to a completely different coloration. Pretty amazing.

Well, some bad news with the cryptic, my heater in my house stopped working one night and it got pretty chilly in there. I woke up to a dead mantis. I was however lucky enough to get a few orchid mantis which are amazing so I am changing the photos to them. The first group were taken before their first molt. They are white when they are full grown, so it will be cool to watch the process of them changing. In one photo it is eating a fruitfly, look for the red eyes of the fly, it will give...

I am starting a blog that will document the growth a cryptic mantis(Sibylla Pretiosa) that I recently aquired. I will update with photographs as it grows. It is currently a nymph and smaller than a penny. I am feeding it fruitflies and pinhead crickets.