My first male mantis, before I knew better, was fed primarily fruit flies until subadult(stagmo Carolina) He lived about 2 months and successfully mated 7 times with no injuries. He was a BIG flier, I ended up moving onto flies when he hit subadult and he had no issues. I’m glad I moved to flies before he was finished developing. As an adult he was unreasonably picky/skiddish when it came to food. Even in adulthood a housefly would leave him hugging the ceiling. He was quite a bit turned off by roaches too, though would eat them if gut fed. The only thing I found that he consistently went for were firebrats. I kid you not when I tell you this mantis ate the equivalent of like two adult roaches female red runners his entire adult life. He WOULD NOT EAT, but he was a thirsty little bugger. All he wanted was to make love to the females near him. He would finish msting and be trying to get at the other females 8 hours later. His stamina was unbelievable… miss that boy
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😊 Thanks for all the info - awesome
would love to see specific spotlight videos on the different individual species you have!!
IM YOUR VERY FIRST VIEW!!!
I WIN!!!!
I put the MAN in MANTIS!!! 💪🏼💪🏼
Also, feeder?? I hardly know her!! 🤣
Also your bug videos are super cool and so educational!
I find the price of fly pupae not bad, but I keep one mantis, not a whole lab!
I used to feed my lil guy masqitos larva
My first male mantis, before I knew better, was fed primarily fruit flies until subadult(stagmo Carolina) He lived about 2 months and successfully mated 7 times with no injuries. He was a BIG flier, I ended up moving onto flies when he hit subadult and he had no issues. I’m glad I moved to flies before he was finished developing.
As an adult he was unreasonably picky/skiddish when it came to food. Even in adulthood a housefly would leave him hugging the ceiling. He was quite a bit turned off by roaches too, though would eat them if gut fed. The only thing I found that he consistently went for were firebrats. I kid you not when I tell you this mantis ate the equivalent of like two adult roaches female red runners his entire adult life. He WOULD NOT EAT, but he was a thirsty little bugger. All he wanted was to make love to the females near him. He would finish msting and be trying to get at the other females 8 hours later. His stamina was unbelievable… miss that boy
My first mantis was a male S. Carolina too. They’re crazy little things.