Popa spurca were my first. Just don't keep them together, spray once a day, and keep at room temperature.
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Anyone else keep praying mantis pets?
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Popa spurca were my first. Just don't keep them together, spray once a day, and keep at room temperature.
I find them in my garden all the time. Yesterday, a huge female in the laundry room. They feed on the millions of crickets from the cornfield!
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hi would you be interested in selling me some praying mantids if so pleas tell me what species you would have available
hi would you be interested in selling me some praying mantids if so pleas tell me what species you would have available
I used to fill a cigar box with sand and keep ant lions in it. It was fun feeding them the ants.
Now imagine the horror of a giant one of those happily munching on a live human. That's what I grew up with 1950-60s scifi invasion/horror movies featuring giant insects and collecting "aliens invading the Earth" baseball cards. I forget the exact name of the card series but one that stands etched in my memory out was a giant house fly like creature with its proboscus stuck in the chest of a soldier sucking out his bodily fluids. It scarred me I tell you!
The concern I'd have would be keeping them fed when I travel. It seems that unless you find a sitter, they would tie you down.
I had fun as a kid feeding ants to ant lions, but I never kept them as pets. Interesting!
My mantis just went through its final molt and it's antenna is stuck to its face. Will that eventually release after a while?
We don’t keep them as pets, but yearly get egg sacks on the northeast corner of our garage that we watch develop and hatch.
Wow very cool! I kept mantises as pets when I was a kid, my wife too. We both find them very fascinating. Lizards and Mantises were the pets I kept when I was a kid, until I went to parakeets, cockatiels, and pigeons later on in life.
Mantises are really easy to care for and super easy to feed - as long as they have a big enough enclosure and some twigs/branches to hang on. Spraying them with water and watching them drink was a lot of fun to watch.
When I was a kid, they seemed to be everywhere, now I rarely see them but I'm not really looking. Love them because they eat pests.
Mantises are really easy to care for and super easy to feed - as long as they have a big enough enclosure and some twigs/branches to hang on. Spraying them with water and watching them drink was a lot of fun to watch.
When I was a kid, they seemed to be everywhere, now I rarely see them but I'm not really looking. Love them because they eat pests.