Our Story

Welcome to the beautiful world of our praying mantids.

In 2019, it all started when I was gardening and found a California mantis ooth or “egg-sack” in my garden. I looked up how to take care of it and before I knew it, about 200 nymphs or babies hatched out of it! This fascinated me and I wanted to learn more. I read articles, read books, and even bought some of my own exotic mantises from other websites to keep and learn about. A couple years later, I had a collection of them and I bred my first California mantis. It was so cool to watch and do, I wanted to breed some of the other exotic species that I had. Then I had so many nymphs! I made a flyer for them and posted it on Facebook. Within the next hour, I had ten buyers and was sold out the next day. I kept breeding some more and made a different flyer for another species to see what would happen a second time and everyone loved it again! It was mostly moms buying low maintenance pets for their kids over COVID-19. (Female mantises live about two years as adults and it takes about one year for them to reach adulthood after they hatch. Males mature a little faster and live about one year.) Then, I made this website to sell my mantises and I’m hoping share my experience with other people like you.