Finally got one as a baby(3/4"). Started as brown, but has colored up beautifully. Found a home and walled it up with carefully placed stones so that (Isuppose) it can have a secure place. Takes out one stone so that it can come out to feed. When done, it replaces the stone. For the last 5 days, it has not removed the stone to expose itsself. I finally shook the house and dislodged some stones to see if perhaps it died. Still alive. In a couple minutes, it rebuilt the wall.QUESTION...why has it not come out the last few days? OR... is it only coming out at night?? I am sort of keeping a log on it's doings and find it the most interesting creature I have come across. The wall it has built is not haphazard, but a wall of carefully sized stones, apparently cemented together by some sort of secretion. Has anyone else had a mantis do this?Thanks.
what is my mantis doing??
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Thurge
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normal molting behavior. When it sheads its entire body is very soft and vunerable to any attack, without any way of defending itself. I think that is what happened to my N. wennera, hitchhiker crab may have goten him. If your mantis isn't out and about in another like 10 days I might check but it should be motoring around before that.
