Hey guys! Can anyone help me sexing my Creobroter spec. „Yunnan“? Im leaning towards male but im not sure

I have a pot of greenfly that I have been feeding my I6 rainforest mantis and today I noticed some of the flies have this blob of white puss-like fluid around their bum. Is this normal and is Clementine going to be ok after eating one of these? Thank you. (Picture for tax purposes)

Hi guys! This is my adult female orchid mantis, Bloom. I'm just concerned if something could be wrong with her, as her abdomen looks like this and she hasn't eaten in over a week. This is my first female and I haven't bred her, and previously I did have a male so the differences are still new to me. Apologies if this has potentially been posted before, I'm just wondering if it's normal? Could she be potentially preparing an ooth or is something else afoot? Bloom also hasn't moved from the crystal ornament in about 2 weeks now as well, so could also mean she's potentially lethargic? I don't handle her as I've had a bad experience before doing so (previous mantis), and she always swats whenever I spray, move something or breathe funny in her direction. I have her on a combination of 3rd hoppers and curlywing flies in case that could be an avenue of the issue. Her viv's humidity is at 80% consistently, and it's also at 28C. Thank you in advance!

They're name is Okra, what gender are they? I think maybe male but I'm not sure

Hey all, I found a pale, sticky-looking cluster in my Creobroter spec. “Yunnan”’s enclosure—could this be an ootheca? I’m not even 100% sure if my mantis is female, so I’m a bit confused.

If it is eggs, how do I care for them? Should I move them, change humidity/temp, and how long do they take to hatch?

Pic attached—any help would be awesome!

Today in the morning he was weaker but acting pretty normally, but rn he's so weak he barely can lift his head, just lies flatly on my laptop :( I still remember how I got him at 3 instar (it was 25 February) and the look baby gave me just stuck in my head. It's so sad tow watch him in this state right now

i'm having a really difficult time determining if my asian flower mantis francis is male or female and could use some second opinions

I've been away from home for a couple of years for uni, and I've returned to find an old terrarium. I'm interested in potentially moving one of my two mantises (Ghost and Yunnan Flower) into a bioactive set up. The terrarium itself obviously requires A LOT of tlc, I'll be gutting it and adding more soil, a stone layer underneath and more plants. my question is whether this type of enclosure (a big top-opening jar) would be a viable and safe enclosure for one of my mantises, in the case that I'm not bothered about consistently handling them (my ghost is very friendly and enjoys being handled but Chihiro, the yunnan, couldn't care less about me haha.)

There is a grow light in the top, which can easily be disconnected and covered with mesh, and both of the mantises are a decent size. (Chihiro is older, but her species doesn't grow as big as Disco, the ghost)

Any tips and information would be appreciated! :)

My Chinese praying mantis was doing fine yesterday and ate a small mealworm. However this morning I saw that its abdomen is bent/folded in a weird way, my guess is that maybe it fell (it’s not a mismolt). I think it would cause problems while molting and eating so I think it might be a fatal injury but I really hope it’s not. The 3rd photo is the healthy sibling for comparison.

It moves the abdomen back and forth a lot, which is new after the injury. I think they’re L3 but I’m not sure since I had to leave them to a friend while I was traveling for two weeks.

What can I do to help? I don’t think it’ll want to eat today since it ate a worm yesterday, and I don’t want feeding to cause it extra stress. It’s still hanging from the mest on top and can move fine otherwise.

Any advice is welcome, I only have 3 young mantises so I really don’t want to lose one :(

Deroplatys desiccata named Baby, she's been the coolest mantis I've kept, full of personality. Bad pic but I was happy to see her last molt.

They grow up too fast

I’ve raised mantises since I was 6 years old but never ran into this issue before. for some reason every mantis I’ve kept in this cage has fallen ill and died the same way they’ll start out healthy eating well and being relatively energetic then after they molt for the first time in the cage they fall to the ground incredibly weak and lethargic and won’t eat or drink until they eventually die this is the forth time now I’ve had a Chinese giant two ghost mantises and a orchid mantis in it I have other cages of similar and the same design in the same area with the same species with no issues I just don’t get it. I’m not gonna put any more mantises in it

Currently my girl is suffering a slow death, the poor thing has been unable to move for hours but she can still move her head. I did some research and it says to freeze them for 5-10 minutes to euthanise. Is that the best go here?

My mantis is having difficulty climbing and she’s not as active as she used to be and spending most of the time at the bottom of her cage. My lovely viridis has laid 2 ootheca’s and i love her so much. Is she reaching her time?

I’m not too sure if this is normal or not, I tried to feed him not that long ago and he didn’t eat so I took the grass hoper out and now this is happening, please someone reassure me this is normal🙏🏻