I'm kind of envious of those of you who have praying mantises where you live. Excluding the ones I hatched and kept, I think I've seen a total of 3 in the wild. Although I guess I could go outside more...
Don’t go in the tall grass....
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Are you in Georgia the state or Georgia the country?
If it's Georgia the state, just leave an outside light on all night to attract bugs this time of the year, and all those bugs will eventually attract a mantis of some sort.
Edit- I imagine Georgia the country has mantids too, but I'm not familiar with what kinds may be there or how to find them.
I'm in the state, Ga, but I live in a more suburban area, so I don't quite get as big of a variety of insects. I'll be sure to try that though.
They sell mantis egg sacs for reptile keepers if I remember correctly, buy one and hatch them? You’ll have all the mantis you’ll ever want for a life time.
That's exactly what I tried a couple years ago. They hatched and were doing really well, and I went to order my second batch of fruit flies, but there was a delay in the shipping on the supplier's end, and the baby mantises died because I couldn't feed them.
The next step is you start breeding fruit flies.
.....A couple steps later you’ll end up with a business breeding feeder animals for reptile keepers.
.....A couple steps later you’ll end up with a business breeding feeder animals for reptile keepers.
Not my hobby.The next step is you start breeding fruit flies.
.....A couple steps later you’ll end up with a business breeding feeder animals for reptile keepers.
You just mix instant oats with some water, yeast and beer then your flies breed on their own in that culture
Some of my brothers feed items for the inverts:
He picks them out of here and chucks the rest back into the breeding boxes
To be honest it probably has a lower bpi (bugs per inch) than a mattress in motel 6.
