I'll get some pictures up as soon as i get my digital camera battery charged, pathetically the battery charger is dead and i've been too lazy to go buy a new one.

And keeping one caught in the wild isn't hard at all, basically any container will work, i'd recomend a 10g or so, but i switched my adults into a smaller critter cage when i figured they were going to lay(basically ebcause i know i cant use that cage till the egg start hatching). This year was a pretty good year for them around here, i saw a ton, and being the wierd person i am, i wanted to catch all of them, but restricted myself to a few.

And no, they aren't really exotic, they're both species that i assume are native to the Missouri area, since thats where i got them. I'm really not trying to sell them, i was just seeing if anyone from here wanted them. I'm going to try to raise as many as possible, but that's gonna be hard since one of their first instincts during hatching is to eat each other to ensure a good start for survival.

Basically, if anyone would be interested in what i have left over after giving what i give to local pet stores, i'd pretty much give them away for the cost of shipping and a thank you. I'm just a big herp/insect hobbiest and saw a chance to expose people to something many people haven't kept as pets before.

As for their requirements:
Minimum Housing - medium sized kritter cage(those overpriced crappy cages, lol), a 10g could make an AWESOME environment for a mantid.
Food - i feed crickets, they'll eat anything, from aphids, to crickets, to moths, to bees....even each other, they're equal opportunity feeders, and they will gorge....till they get obese. So i try to keep the adults to 4 large crickets a week. If they get overfed, its not a problem really, they'll just fast once they reach maximum weight. Oh...and they'll get so fat that they'll have trouble climbing and definite trouble flying. So thats really the only thing i'd watch, you'll want their abdomens to look plump, but not so stuffed that they're about to burst