praying mantis

[Red Devil]

wow, i am so awsome!!
why you ask, well the one i cought the other day, well
i laid an eggsack or whatever that cacoon type thing is called
so i put the mother and the cacoon in a seperated container so she can watch over the eggsack thing and when they hatch take her out and feed them fruit flys

and i made the whole thing escape proof
pics will be up tomorow

wow and babies already too..that is awesome..looking forward to the pics,

 

[Bsixxx]

wow and babies already too..that is awesome..looking forward to the pics,

no babies yet... just bought the fruit flies just incase

 

[Red Devil]

no babies yet... just bought the fruit flies just incase

You could have all my fruit flies for free..i am in apple country and there have been alot more fruities around this year.. and they bite.. keeping my fingers crossed on the babies..

 

[Bsixxx]

You could have all my fruit flies for free..i am in apple country and there have been alot more fruities around this year.. and they bite.. keeping my fingers crossed on the babies..

oo that sucks, well i am too hopefully they hatch out I would be so happy

 

[Vicious_Fish]

no babies yet... just bought the fruit flies just incase

There hatching is temperature dependent I believe. The mantids near me lay eggs in the fall which overwinter and hatch in the spring. If you want yours to hatch sooner you should find out what temp the need to be kept at.

 

[jason longboard]

5 pages on mantis and i got like 1 reply on bonsai trees

 

[AttackFish]

There hatching is temperature dependent I believe. The mantids near me lay eggs in the fall which overwinter and hatch in the spring. If you want yours to hatch sooner you should find out what temp the need to be kept at.

75f to be exact. Last summer I bought a Mantis Cacoon from my local garden supply store and the instructions say 75f for hatching. I released them into the plants my mom planted in the yard. It was pretty cool having 100 mantids crawling about.

I used to be in contact with a person that kept a certain species of large mantid, I meen, HUGE. It weas large enough to tear fuzzies/pinkies in half, then devour them.

I want to get into mantid keeping, they are very neat creatures. My favorite mantid Is the "Ghost" phase mantid. They are really amazing looking.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I figured that it was a temperature around that. I've heard of people bringing cocoon's indoors in the fall to find out that wasn't the brightest idea because now they have hundreds of tiny mantids crawling around on everything and it's February!

 

[Bsixxx]

There hatching is temperature dependent I believe. The mantids near me lay eggs in the fall which overwinter and hatch in the spring. If you want yours to hatch sooner you should find out what temp the need to be kept at.

allright cool i can do that, i have sorta a heat lamp and a temp gauge. so 75? nice thats easy to do,

 

[AttackFish]

allright cool i can do that, i have sorta a heat lamp and a temp gauge. so 75? nice thats easy to do,

Yeah, 70-75 should be good. Are you going to release them outdoors? Or get a bunch of critter keepers. You'd be spending some serious dough on critter keepers if you kept them all! Haha.