Pet Mantises Breeding Mantids
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- In this video I begin by mentioning the live interview I'll be doing over at Wally's Supreme Gecko channel at the link below. We'll be talking about mantises On Saturday 12/05/2020 at 4 PM Pacific Time/7 PM Eastern. Please pop in and say hi and give Wally a follow. He's got a great RUclips Channel about isopods (and geckos) and I'm regularly telling him he needs to rename his channel Supreme Isopods. He's doing lots of giveaways for the holidays between now and Christmas and so you have some great chances to win some money or bugs, etc from various hobby resources including Bugs In Cyberspace!
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In this video I demonstrate again my breeding methods for Giant Asian Mantises, Hierodula membranacea. It's sort of the speed dating version for RUclips. Every mantis breeding attempt with predatory bugs is an exercise in caution and observation. There is much nuance in the behaviors of the male and female during these tense moments and I do my best to articulate the events as they unfold in these videos, in the moment and of course, entirely unscripted. But much of it is intuitive in the sense that my actions are based on my experiences in watching mantises in this state of interaction many times before. You can't learn these things through reading mantid care sheets in the same way that you have to sit behind the wheel of a vehicle to learn how to drive. When to push the pedal, how hard, when to let off. When to brake. All this and then some consideration left over for hills, up and down and how they affect what you do with the pedals, not to mention the unpredictable nature of other drivers. Watch that gas tank gauge, and how much roach the female has left to eat and making sure her food tank won't run dry as the male makes a too slow approach and she's thinking she just finished her first Lay's potato chip and betcha can't eat just one!
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Wow, I'm not usually a HUGE fan of dead leaf mimicking mantids, but that Deroplatys truncata is beautiful! 😍 Love to see the variety of species you keep/have kept!
Believe it or not this is the first adult female I've ever had. I ran a few males through here cage and hope she deposits an ootheca soon!
@@bugsincyberspace That's cool, hope you're able to get some offspring from her!
Just discovered the world of bugs and mantises are making me want to learn everything! Mantises are so beautiful and amazing!
Thank you, and welcome!
Great livestream with Wally, so much great information! Thank you
Thanks so much for mentioning it, Bob, and I recall your name being mentioned by Wally!
dude,you sir have quite a few very interesting mantid species.
Mostly they come and go but I do like to keep a few around just for video purposes like this. They are forever one of my favorite groups of insects! Thanks for watching, DM!
Great video Peter! Yeah I have heard there has been phyllocrania hybridizing in the hobby, I know a breeder in SoCal that said all of his ghosts were crosses from his source, and when I ask him later in the year he started to say they aren't, so I think the mix may be pretty deep into the hobby if they are being sold mislabeled.
Very interesting. I will probably never know what I hvae for sure but I'll have to offer them out under some kind of disclaimer if I'm diligent with the ooths and they hatch. I can't seem to remember who I got them from.
Wow amazing mantis
Thanks GB!
great video! also, any plans for more beetle videos in 2021? 👀
Thanks Emmett! What beetles do you want to see?
@@bugsincyberspace Any! 😁
@@emmettbattle5728 Well, you're an easy person to please in that case. Yes, there will be lots of beetle videos in 2021 and beyond. Thanks for your interest!
Please put a video for Jewel beetles
great video, i've been trying to breed mantids for a while now. These videos are pretty helpful. I definitely don't have the sense like you mentioned haha I've never been able to get a successful mating with my chinese mantids. I have with spiny flowers though. I was wondering do mantid females ever need to be re-mated? i noticed the last ootheca my spiny produced didn't look too healthy kind of like an unfertilized ooth.
Females don't ever need to be re-mated but a fresh contribution from a male after a couple oothecae have been deposited is highly recommended and more than likely helpful. And if you have an extra male around at least one of the two mantises, if not both, will appreciate the potential quality time together and even if it turns out to be merely a "dinner" date. ;)
I wish I can get back into mantises. Rn I haven’t had the time for them ;-;
Among pet bugs mantises are definitely one of the more time consuming groups. Hope to welcome you back someday, WK!
Why is there a dead? baby mantis besides them? How romantic xD
I'd love to get one of those D. truncata someday. Have you ever been able to get any Choeradodis rhombicollis? They're an interesting species; like truncata but green and with a larger shield/pronotum.
I've never seen a living specimen of the Cr's. Hope to someday! It's definitely on my short list of ones in the hobby that I hope to see in the next year or two!
@@bugsincyberspace Out of all the mantis species you've raised, which one has been the most interesting/entertaining to keep?
@@lapisore9190 I'd have to say the spiny flower mantises because of their fun little dances and ever-changing look as they grow!
@@bugsincyberspace They are beautiful, but mine never did any "dances". Did get to see his hindwings when he flew and fluttered his wings preparing to fly.
I noticed you run a paper towell up the side of your 32oz cup. Could you please explain why use this method instead of a stick or tongue depressor? Thanks.
DO YOU LEAVE THE EGG CASE IN THAT BIG CAGE OR DO YOU MOVE IT?
I personally move them and put them in a container where I can better regulate the temperature and humidity.
I recently came across a Chinese mantis egg case
It's a lot easier to find them in winter months when they are all freshly deposited back in the fall and the leaves that were once hiding them have fallen off the vegetation for the season.
Hey Peter I sent you a email with a few questions like 3 days ago. Just checking to see if you received it….
Check your spam folder
I wish i could buy some of ur mantises
But im in australia ): ...
I wish I could buy some of your country's bugs too!
We have some beautiful species like othodera
Also are u on mantid forums?
Does anyone do praying mantid hybrids?
Probably but it is very much frowned upon in the hobby.
@@bugsincyberspace Why are hybrids frowned upon in so many insect hobbies?
@@neonx6568 And in animal hobbies in general. The reason is that the various species and geographical varieties (including subspecies) evolved over millions of years to be at least slightly genetically dissimilar to one another. When a human comes along and plays God and subverts everything that Nature did through the course of eons, it is disrespectful to what makes our planet's lifeforms so unique. It is a different matter to do things in a lab for the sake of science of some kind, but one of the dangers of mixing things for the sake of hobby is that hybrid organisms might find their way back into populations in nature and that would slightly upset a balanced (perfect) ecosystem. That's the gist, anyway.
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Always good to see you!
Those mantids are awesome I definitely want to get some. I’m trying to keep a pseudoscorpion I found check him out in my videos if anyone is interested I’d appreciate it and have an amazing day everyone ✌️