>>2597350 >>2597353photogram, put a mantis on a piece of photo paper and nail it with a snooted light
>>2597356Some are most are not. I would start with the European Mantis which is of a fair size is generally what people think of someone says praying mantis. If you want to do an exotic start with Indian flowers or ghosts(picture). If you want to do more than one in a cage the ghosts are probably you're best bet. As long as you keep food in the cage they shouldn't Battle Royal too much. The european's will eat each other and the indian's will highlander.
I wrote up some basic mantis raising here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raising-praying-mantises/http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php Great resource and the place you'll get the mantises. There's a user called Exo in Poland who seems to have hilariously good access to species. I'm not sure what import laws look like in Europe but that guy will have the harder to get stuff.
