Our elderly female (final moult 4th April!) still hasn't laid an ooth.

She isn't oozing from her abdomen but got to the point where she was so stretched her insides came oout between segments.

We cut down on any large food and are running long periods between any food at all, each time she bulges back out.

A couple of her legs aren't moving properly and we suspect she fell at some point.

She is still pooping, we've moved her to a smaller enclosure and changed the layout to give more options for laying but unfortunately that didn't work either although I think she has been trying.

She has been quite aggressive so the only handling has been cleaning out and moving her between enclosures for the last couple of months.

Our only hope now is she doesn't burst!

Not looking for any advice but there has been quite a few chats on egg-bound females and some interest in what can be done - in our case I think nothing more bar wait and see, and hope she passes through age not abdominal tearing.

Found a full-grown Chinese mantis outside right before it was going to start snowing.

She's underweight, won't eat anything aside from some honey and very little liquid food (but only a few bites), hasn't pooped in a few days, isn't molting, and one of her arms wasn't working but she kinda gained use of it again after a few days.

Does anyone know what's going on with her? I would appreciate any advice

Edit: I've tried giving her live insects (and even dead ones), but she just runs away from them

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Raising a ton of babys right now and asked myself the question on how to care for the flys to get the most outa them. Last time I had flys (when mommy mantis was a baby) that stuff at the bottom turned brown at some point and the flys died. Do I put em somewhere warm or cold? Also, can I breed these flys the get more? Tryed that last time in a different cup but the ones I seperated just died off with no new ones emerging from that paste after waiting.

Please for the love of god I wanna make a huge colony out of this tank but I can’t find a single one for sale I’m gonna tweak 😭😭😭

I was looking at in iNatrualist and looking at around 2000 pictures of observations of the European mantis and almost all were green or brown and a very few yellow and turquoise ones. But what surprised me was a black coloration which is extremely and I did not know they exist until looking through 2000 pictures of all different mantis specimens, there was only 1 that was black one, so weird colorations do exist but they are very rare.

credit - iNatrualist: rubenferreira

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Hi, maybe you can tell me the sex of my mantis. Close up on abdomen at 1:20. All I know is it skinned once, so it's at least L2.

YoutTube: Hierodule membranacea - Young Giant Asian Mantis

It turns out that I am not allowed to buy roaches as my family is afraid that if the roaches escape then there will be an infestation which can happen. I heard that roaches have the most nutrients and is the most protein dense food for the mantises and that is the reason why I thought of buying them but now I can't. Please let me know what other foods that are good for my mantises instead of roaches.

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I am very interested in Mantids (not getting one until i have enough knowledge) specifically Ghost mantis (phyllocrania paradoxa) and orchid mantis (hymenopus coronatus) so i want to know more ! Tell me everything I need to know about these 2 mantids :)

This enclosure hasn't been used for few months, and recently I got this baby. I fed him a big fly and left, only to come back to him eating a-not-fly-looking-thing.
I didn't know where the mealworm came from and eventually settled on it being dead left over from before, which, yea, is weird, mantids don't attack dead things, but what else could be the reason?
Upon taking a closer look I saw at least a dozen more mealworms hidden out and about, now, I wasn't exactly careful when feeding and sometimes when I dropped a mealworms behind some decoration, I let it be, but over all, I lost max 2 or 3 and never saw any adult beatles....

(Camera makes her look whiter than she is)

My praying mantis is dying of old age and I don't want them to suffer. What should I do? I don't want to kill them, but if it's what I have to do then I'm capable of doing it. Any advice? (bonus pic of Skittle from a few months ago)

She's seemed otherwise fine, she hasn't fallen or gotten injured, she just suddenly started hanging like this an hour ago. I've had her since August so I'm assuming she's getting old at this point. But is this behavior I should worry about?