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Can a praying mantis skip its molt?

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Exposure to certain chemicals can delay or prevent a molt, or even induce an early molt or cause extra molts, but this is often deadly or unhealthful to the insect. Once most insects reach adult size, however, they are done growing and stop. read more

A praying mantis won’t eat a few days before it will shed its skin (molt). This is normal. After molting it will start to eat again. When a praying mantis will not eat even though it does not need to molt, it can help to offer it a different prey species. Do not worry too much, a mantis can live for 2 weeks without any food. read more

You can tell when a praying mantis is about to molt because she'll lose her appetite and hang motionless upside down in her cage. Just before molting, a juvenile mantis also gets swollen wing buds where her wings will eventually grow. read more

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