Hierodula membranacea doesn't eat?

Hello, I have had 2 Hierodula membranacea (Indian praying mantis) since Thursday

When I got them both were L4.

The female hasn't eaten anything since I got her, the male hasn't eaten anything, and she hasn't taken anything from the tweezers either.

However, the female molted on Friday. The abdomen of the female is already very flat compared to the male.

So far, I've been feeding them small crickets because my package contained fruit flies and not the golden flies I had originally ordered. Here's a picture of the female mantid.

I hope you can help me and tell me what I can do in this case.

Greetings Jonathan

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Henrike486
4 years ago

Sometimes it is that your body needs 1-2 days to cure after skinning, try not to feed from the tweezers but make sure that home does not eat them. If you don’t, you’ll have to change to fly. You have a pretty animal.