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My praying mantis is acting weird? he suddenly his sabdomen(stomach/bottom) is sucked in and he`s going to places very high and climbing them and standing still.His main diet os cave crickets and moths and he1s been eating very well. Is it molting?

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It might be, most animals that retreat to a certain destination to shed their molt will do that. Spiders and Mantises do that often most animals of the insecta species.
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