I give you a little background on what got me into the hobby, how I care for my pet orchid mantis, and what I suggest for other pet praying mantis keepers.
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“They’re a little more temperamental” my dumbass was like “oh cute little feisty bois” and then he was like “just make sure you watch the temperature” and I felt so dumb
If you like turtles/tortoise or parrots, many of them can live very long, and they are all quite smart and very sweet (my turtle has been with me for 5 years now and i can expect him to live at least 20 more years) Allot of tirtles and tortoises will act almost lile a dog, my turtle gets excited every moning and splashes around till i feed him, sometimes I scoop him up and let him walk around the floor, hes real cute and will look up at me or look at the tv at times while he scuttles around and sniffs stuff.
@@Alex-qj3wp actually just about any reptile can, but its not as bad a thing as people make it out to be, if your helthy with a strong ammune system it will go through like a cold or flue, and it gets harder to catch it a second time. Chanses are that I already had it as a kid (mom wasn't too concerned about cross contamination) but I try to make sure everything is salmonella free before people come over, just in case.
"My girlfriend has been pretty clear she won't let me keep fly pupa in the refrigerator" ahhh classic scenario. We've all been there at one time or another am i right guys?
I went to a coffee bar a few years back with some friends and we noticed a hUgE mantis following us around as we looked for a place to sit outside. I put my cup of coffee on the ground and to my surprise he climbed up, sat on the lid and vibed with us for two hours. Eventually people around us noticed this large bugger sitting on my coffee cup and began chanting money mantis. It was an odd experience but I genuinely never would’ve thought I’d vibe with an insect the way we did with money mantis. I never even got to drink my coffee. It was his coffee throne.
This has nothing to do with bugs but there's this toad that visits me every weekend, he likes to put his lil hand on my finger. Can't pick him up tho he runs away ;-;
@@CTSael Laurantis is pure grass due to not quite being an orchid mantis, but a mantis orchid. Instead of a bug pretending to be a plant, it's a sentient plant pretending to be a bug. Too bad bug and grass type share a lot of the same weaknesses.
I have a question... I want a mantis like a Chinese Mantis but I know that I will need to feed it bugs, is there a alternative food that I can feed it?
@@buffalosauce_ Gotta do live bugs. You can buy crickets at your local pet store. It's super easy. Or, get a smaller species and you can feed it tiny flightless fruit flies for most of its life.
@@k0ymi online or exotic pet stores. Hard to come by. Online is always a gamble. I wouldn't be 100 percent sure it'll arrive. The stores are HARD to locate. Once you do, it's usually many miles of driving. I don't have a good answer for that, I'm sorry. Edit: the stores with these aren't close to my house, hopefully they're close to yours. These are amassing creatures.
I was gardening one day and saw a small spider that I had never seen before. It was white with a pale green tinge, and had bright raspberry markings on its abdomen. I looked it up, and the only spider like it I could find was found in England. I live in the Seattle area. I never again saw another like it.
"It's been kind of a challenge to...get her acclimated to the bug collection but over time I think she's pretty cool with it." - I genuinely thought you were talking about the orchid mantis.
I've caught a mantis once (I was at work and during the lunch pause I caught it), I went home with it and she was non-stop trying to grab my other hand when I presented it to her
I feel like theyre sentient and aware enough to a level of actual house pets, such as pigs, dogs, cats, etc. Cause they seem to really understand what "playing" is
I would highly doubt they are aware of playing, judging by just how small they are and therefore how small their brain is, but mantises are intelligent for their size
I wouldn't compare them to mammals, just from a purely neurological point of view, but there is actually evidence that suggests a lot of insects understand the concept of play and do it in the wild. It's just that their definition of play is so simplistic that it doesn't look like much to us, but it's happening and it's useful socially.
"Not even capable of hurting you." I have been bitten or pinched once, and it did hurt, but I fully admit it was my fault, I was like 3 and I tried grabbing it roughly, it felt threatened and in turn bit or pinched me, thus making me drop it. Now when I hold a mantis, I am very gentle, these are such fascinating creatures and I absolutely adore them, easily tying for my favorite bug pet with scorpions.
I did the same thing with a big dragonfly at a similar age, my parents didn't believe me when I said it bit me tho. Sidenote: It's apparently very effective tho as we still remember this decades later while meanwhile forgetting where we put our coffee cup 30 seconds ago.
@@prestonthemetapod1484 only like 15 species of scorpion can actually harm humans to any significant degree. Depending on where you live the scorpions might be pretty harmless.
Ainsley the meat rubber my parents bought me it just after,It wasn’t my choice, I loved her with my whole heart and was gonna get another one while it was alive
@@Ainsley_the_meat_rubber that was unnecessarily rude, don't you think? Everyone grieves differently. My cat died in July due to an unfortunate accident. I was devastated. We we're planning on adopting another cat (so we'd have 2) anyways, but after she passed we got two. Within two weeks we had another cat. And 7 days after that, then we had 2. I love them so much. My pets are my whole world. Everyone deals with things differently.
I used to own two Praying Mantises. One was a Chinese Mantis while the other was just a common Green Mantis. I named the green one Medusa and the brown one Dillan. I never counted on Dillan and Medusa being different genders! I was like six, so I couldn't understand why Medusa would make these four large egg sacks on the top of their habitat and eat Dillan's head! A while later, I came home from school and my mom was freaking out, yelling that there were little baby mantises loose in the house! They slipped through the breathing holes! May I remind you that I was six so I kept them in a Hermit Crab cage. We found them all around the room, but most of them escaped to the window already and were just chilling on the screen.
I've always thought mantises were among the coolest of insects. They're terrifying up close, but they do make great pets. I remember when I was little there was a mantis that liked to hang out on a stump near my deck. I would go out and feed him little flies I'd caught and he'd reach out and grab them from me until he was done. Then he'd chill on my hand until he wanted to go home. He only lasted a few months before I never saw him again, but it was still really cool
Definitely thinking of owning a mantis someday, but I need to get over my bug fear 😂 Edit: By bug fear I mean the mantis’s food, not the mantis itself lol
@Dingo Dan You are clearly one of those pathetic little humans who feel the need to abuse others to compensate for your small self esteem, since you can't mess with someone your size you resort to mess with insects.
Also, my mantis loves watching my fishes. I set his enclosure by the tank and he has a spot where he always sits and watches, like a cat watching birds. I think neon tetras are small enough to entice him as prey.
I had a pet mantis the summer when i was living in greece. found him on a garden tree and took him in my hands and played for a while. i fed him flies and that's where he began to be friends with me. He never left his tree and i would always catch flies and feed them to him. After having him for a while he started developing wings and one day he wasnt at his tree anymore. I still have photos of him on my old iPad. Farewell Mr. Snapper, you will not be forgotten!
For an insect they are incredibly humanoid being upright and having appendages they use like arms rather than the typical leg usage, so yeah, I think they’re pretty easy to humanize.
@@haosmagnaingram6992 Also, their head has a larger range of movement and is more differentiated from the rest of their body (almost like they have an actual neck), which makes the seem less compact and much more human as they look around
@@diegogonzalez9877 ahh that is why as a kid im strangely not creep out by Mantis becauae they have human quality in them. Because they are familiar to humans and not as alien as like centipede and roaches There must be some psychology to this.
Adorable! Those are hard to find. I have found one from a breeder and named her Sakura, since her legs look like sakura blossoms. She's so shy with other people beside me though, I gave her a little tunnel in her tank (it's a large tank so she has a lot of space) and she hides in it 24/7. But oh no, when feeding time comes, she just yeets outta her tube like: *i have been summoned*
also you have basically the same set up as i do for my mantids! (Giant Ball jars with mesh lids and a stick+substrate). I haven't had a ghost yet but I've had spiny flower and orchid.
I lived in Tenerife a while back and there's millions of them. Blepharopsis mendica or the devil's flower mantis. Fascinating insects and quite large at around 5 inches long.
When i used to live in Tennessee i would catch praying manties all the time they were a bug part of my childhood i spent endless hours catching grasshoppers and crickets to feed and take care of i even had a few that mated and layed egg sacks and i would have hundreds of little baby manaties all around my house when i let them go but yes they are beautiful creatures
Ender Ssor Last time I saw a praying mantis, it was clinging to a window where I worked. I put in a plastic cup to bring it back outside. I was a bit nervous holding it, since they eat numerous insects as well as their husbands. Don’t they bite?
Never had a mantis pet, but one time I was sitting in my yard, the wind was blowing, and a green mantis fell out of our orange tree and right into my hair.
What I think would be cool is if they were bigger, when there was HUGE amounts of oxygen on earth compared to the current couple of millions of years of oxygen levels, bugs were way bigger than today's, and I mean GIANT bugs! Some could be bigger than a cat! And I know that they probably wouldn't survive with the current oxygen levels but I'd love to have a big orchid mantis so I wouldn't have to be scared of accidentally stepping on it or something, but the orchid mantis and maybe butterflies are the only acception because I don't also want a huge poison spider or something living in my house I'd *n o t* like it at all
AA0 I would be more worried about the mantis taking my finger off if it mistakes my finger for a worm, and yeah, a big house spider wouldn’t sound nice at all!
I just bought a pretty sizeable tank (10 gallons) for my mantis that willl be here next week! It is the first one I'll have every gotten! Cant wait to give the lil fella the best life possible :)
remember when a wild mantis flew in on me and the fam. Was holding it in my hand when mum tried to take a picture with her phone and it decided to fly onto the phone lmao. She didn't know where it went until it poked its head out at her from behind the phone.
@@blackmonalisa9732 😂 to some yes, but a lot of us find it therapeutic and calming. Except when you're being chased down by tarantulas, wasps, and scorpions.
This is actually the video that introduced me into the mantis keeping hobby! I’ve watched it over a year ago not knowing that you can keep these beautiful creatures as pets. Thank you so much for changing my life
Also if your mantis will eat them, locusts are safer than crickets as crickets have dormant bacteria than can be harmful to mantids occasionally, also locusts won't really bite back.
@@ycylchgames Also crickets (mainly black crickets) can bite back, with locusts the only thing you have to worry about is the sharp back legs (which locusts can detach at will and wont mind too much if you take them off if you're worried they'll hurt your mantis)
Orchid on hand: shaky old lady crossing the street Orchid on stick: the confidence and gratitude of someone who was floating on driftwood at sea for a couple days finally reaching land
I love my praying mantis I was fortunate enough to see esmeralda standing in the middle of the front door as if she was waiting for me to bring her home 💜😊💜👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hey I just got into the Mantis hobby and your videos have really helped me out. I started when I found a Female Arizona Tan Mantis at our mailbox and she laid an Ooth. Now I have her, the ooth, and two little Indian Flower Mantis females. I'd love to see more of your videos on your critters. Great Video!!!
I am deeply terrified of bugs, especially cockroaches, but beautiful mantises like your orchid mantis help me get rid of that fear. They also kill the pests in my house ^_^
Praying mantis: om-nom-nom
The flies: Why is this flower eating me?
Another version would be
Praying mantis om nom nom
Fly: YOU WERENT SUPOOSED TO DOO THAT
I CHOKED--
POKÉMON
Adrian and Adris Fortunato whaaaaaatttt?
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Human: I am playing with my pet so cute
Mantis: WTF with this never ending stairs
*theres no escape, nowhere to run*
@@livelybubbs6242 I cackled at this
Ilv 😂😂😂
Mantis: What is this thing you call Karna?
The Human is basically using ZA WARUDO on the Mantis
"They look attractive to their prey"
As we admire how attractive the damn thing is
Ahhh I'm not a predator I'm not attractive
old pineapple they didnt say YOU were attractive, they said the mantis itself was attractive.
@@alyr.4640 I was saying I'm not a praying mantis, smh
True, I'd screw that bug myself if I could
@@the_infinexos umm-
"Are you a cat person or a dog person?"
"A mantis person."
"Wha-"
"You know what i said."
Internet Maractus lol! Love this!
“ *did I stutter?* “
They're like, cat bugs. Some can fly too.
lmao
Wha-
"Its like having a tiny cat"
Say no more, ive been sold
Be careful because certain species can fly I believe.
@@Aodhan_Raith Even better!
cool username i rlly like ur username oml
Casey McCullough ummm... imagine keeping a pet fly...
ivrene I agree it’s pretty cool
“They’re a little more temperamental” my dumbass was like “oh cute little feisty bois” and then he was like “just make sure you watch the temperature” and I felt so dumb
No I'm pretty sure he meant temperature sensitive cuz I don't think temperamental means the same
You got it right. He used the wrong word.
you don’t have to say “like” as a filler-word
Yay, I'm not the only one who thought the same! ;-;
@@dotdashdotdash Jake, shut up.
She's legit so cute. I would get one as a pet but I cannot handle such a short lifespan my heart would break
If you like turtles/tortoise or parrots, many of them can live very long, and they are all quite smart and very sweet (my turtle has been with me for 5 years now and i can expect him to live at least 20 more years)
Allot of tirtles and tortoises will act almost lile a dog, my turtle gets excited every moning and splashes around till i feed him, sometimes I scoop him up and let him walk around the floor, hes real cute and will look up at me or look at the tv at times while he scuttles around and sniffs stuff.
@@hrpdrp97 I'm sure you know about turtle more than me, but just in case, be careful because turtles, I believe, can cause salmonella poisoning
@@Alex-qj3wp actually just about any reptile can, but its not as bad a thing as people make it out to be, if your helthy with a strong ammune system it will go through like a cold or flue, and it gets harder to catch it a second time. Chanses are that I already had it as a kid (mom wasn't too concerned about cross contamination) but I try to make sure everything is salmonella free before people come over, just in case.
Snails live for a while if you want something easy to take care of they are also incredibly cute and easy to take care of
I would definitely get one if they lived longer :(
I caught an orchid mantis! Our friendship is blooming!
Animal Crossing, right?
Animal Crossing, right?
when you know, you know.
Gdi lol
leggo my eggo I get it
She waved her lil arms like “bring me the hand human” 🥺❤️
She was like "Higher, hooman! Higher!"
I would be sooooo scared of just squish it i mean like etchu you sneeze and are like why is my muce pink ohhhhh nooooooooooooo but yes really cute
Mantis: I wobble like flower in wind to walk
Human: but you are on my hand
Mantis: i am flower
it was short but dang it was beautiful
I had never even heard of an orchid mantis until Animal Crossing 😅
HxH *:D*
There's an Orchid Mantis character in Animal Crossing? Or is it just a collectable?
Jason Adjiwanou it’s a bug you can catch.
Lol I never heard or seen an atlas moth they are literally so gorgeous or sea butterflies
Proof that we learn more from Animal Crossing than school...
so cool how they made the orchid mantis from Animal Crossing a real thing
wee woo
Lol well i thought someone just got wooooshed.
This is surprising
Edit:lmfao! Someone just got woooooshed
Umm all bugs and fish are real things. They aren’t made up.
@Kayla Miles I was being sarcastic :,)
Kayla Miles r/whooosh
"My girlfriend has been pretty clear she won't let me keep fly pupa in the refrigerator" ahhh classic scenario. We've all been there at one time or another am i right guys?
Ahaha yeah.. our girlfriends woo.. always a hassle. 😒
Certainly a stepping stone in any relationship
@@LelouchOfBritannia stop being a doomer and get out there. I'm sure there are plenty of girls that would like you
Kinda similar but I’m not allowed to keep mice and rats for my snakes in the main freezer in my house.
@@ino7604 bruh it's a joke
i despise insects with a passion, but the orchid mantis is so amazingly beautiful that i want one as a pet
I don't like bugs or insects either but I love the orchid mantis 😍😍♥️
mynameis bob I am petrified of insects, but this one is so beautiful that I wouldn’t mind holding it.
@@hyrulemythology6055 silkworm moth/poodle moth look it up :3
Cheddar_ Puff_Chan aw poodle moths look so fluffy
Cheddar_ Puff_Chan ohhhh wow are those real!?
Me building up my mantis army after hearing they eat murder Hornets :
Great minds think alike they say
The Star Wars empire theme song plays in the background.
Why do I hear boss music...
@@koshkacat1871
Bees are fine.
Hornets are assholes that can go die.
Hornets:Why do I hear boss music?
They all start dancing when you get home lol.
“He’s home HES home!! Food!! Happy dance”
Hap!
Food time to dance!
My betta fish does this whenever I enter the room
Its part of the way it camos, move like flowers in the wind
"Hehehe, he'll never find me here"
*human lifts lid*
"I'VE BEEN DISCOVERED ABORT, ABORT!"
"Why is hooman lifting mee?!"
When the orchid mantis was climbing along his fingers and outstretched it's front pincers it looked like it was saying
"Up! Up! Uuuppp! I want up!"
It dose! Awwe
Up up up uppityyyy
😌
Upupupupu, it’s punishment time!
So this is what Flick does when I sell him bugs...
Cj goes to michaels to get frames with flick
@@berriebarrera Flick is crying the whole time as CJ comforts him.
It’s a whole process but yes
I dunno if it's just me seeing it but Flick is literally above this comment- dhekdbkebe
@@lackasack hes below this comment for me haha
Me: I hate bugs
Me, after watching this video: I like one bug
For some reason, mantis is alright to me
Linety 27 ewwwww
Linety 27 butterflies are horrible i hate them :3
Darkyy1994 butterflies are cute tho and they don’t bite
Linety 27 I love butterflies. I once found a fully grown monarch butterfly in my front yard. My cat ate her 0_0
I went to a coffee bar a few years back with some friends and we noticed a hUgE mantis following us around as we looked for a place to sit outside. I put my cup of coffee on the ground and to my surprise he climbed up, sat on the lid and vibed with us for two hours. Eventually people around us noticed this large bugger sitting on my coffee cup and began chanting money mantis. It was an odd experience but I genuinely never would’ve thought I’d vibe with an insect the way we did with money mantis. I never even got to drink my coffee. It was his coffee throne.
This has nothing to do with bugs but there's this toad that visits me every weekend, he likes to put his lil hand on my finger. Can't pick him up tho he runs away ;-;
sxturnmoon x that’s so cute!! There are a couple roads that live on my patio, they hide under planters!! I named em Timmy and Tommy
I meant toads, but they might actually be little tree frogs haha.
fancy seeing u on this video
rachael allyn omg u can probably guess what coffee shop this happened at
Its a fairy/bug type Pokemon.
I agree, an orchid mantis Pokemon should be bug/fairy. Lurantis was robbed of a proper typing by being a grass type.
@@CTSael Laurantis is pure grass due to not quite being an orchid mantis, but a mantis orchid. Instead of a bug pretending to be a plant, it's a sentient plant pretending to be a bug. Too bad bug and grass type share a lot of the same weaknesses.
Pokemons missins mantis
@@CTSael if it was bug/grass it would've been the squishiest Pokemon ever
StrangeMachines1 niceeeeeeeeee
I dropped my phone in the bathtub, so I quickly got this video uploaded before the footage was lost forever. Thanks for checking it out!
Your video is fascinating!
I have a question... I want a mantis like a Chinese Mantis but I know that I will need to feed it bugs, is there a alternative food that I can feed it?
@@buffalosauce_ Gotta do live bugs. You can buy crickets at your local pet store. It's super easy. Or, get a smaller species and you can feed it tiny flightless fruit flies for most of its life.
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She looks like a tiny princess Mantis. :>
Awe lmao
Wow I didn't think of that. 😂
Aw Yes :>
It's funny how humans can simulate an infinite staircase for bugs crawling up their fingers
Uncertainty Guaranteed I know right 😂
I do it with my gerbil too!
what a beautiful sentence
Well they are instinctually driven to climb up high so they can catch their food which are normally flying insects.
God level talent
She's actually the most beautiful bug i've ever seen.
Ikr. Mantises are my favorite
Spinny flower and Devil flower mantises are also beautiful if you want to see more amazing mantises
“and she especially likes it when my bugs die, i frame them”
me: 👁 👄 👁
I- JSNDJDJDI👁👄👁
Hey, dont kink shame
🗿🗿🗿
1:30 that was so cute, she signalised that she wants the finger
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Don’t ever say that again
She’s so cute
You’re cursed
@@Im_The_Slep Cursed how? Other than you having a dirty ass mind all the time. That's cursed.
5:24 She's washing her hands after playing with the animal
She doesn't want crona
"I caught an orchid mantis! Our friendship is blooming!"
Where do u buy them? I want one so bad lol
She really is beautiful. I want one, but I'm scared that I'll not have the proper humidity & temp. , and I don't want her or him to die because of me.
Heather Comeaux Where do you get one??
@@k0ymi online or exotic pet stores. Hard to come by. Online is always a gamble. I wouldn't be 100 percent sure it'll arrive. The stores are HARD to locate. Once you do, it's usually many miles of driving. I don't have a good answer for that, I'm sorry.
Edit: the stores with these aren't close to my house, hopefully they're close to yours. These are amassing creatures.
Heather Comeaux with proper research, dedication, and equipment then you are good.
@@tyronefromprison2844 do you believe siren head is an scp because its not
oldmemes no I know it’s not an SCP
Never in my life would I have thought the words “This bug is so pretty!” Would ever come out of my mouth...
I feel you dude but it happened to me with the bees from pleasebee channel, pumpkin and watermelon, you should watch them they're adorable
I was gardening one day and saw a small spider that I had never seen before. It was white with a pale green tinge, and had bright raspberry markings on its abdomen. I looked it up, and the only spider like it I could find was found in England. I live in the Seattle area. I never again saw another like it.
I hated and feared bugs so much a few years ago now i have tarantulas and held a wild black widow yesterday.
I have scorpions spawning on my island and I was like u gotta get one of those
The Queen Alexandra's birdwing is magnificent, too! :)
"It's been kind of a challenge to...get her acclimated to the bug collection but over time I think she's pretty cool with it." - I genuinely thought you were talking about the orchid mantis.
I thought he was talking about because he feeds her bugs that aren't a flying species...
O lol
5:54
*tries to put her back in the jar*
“No dad I want to play with you”
It's cute how the orchid mantis reached out its arms to try to get onto your other hand. They seem to really like you.
I've caught a mantis once (I was at work and during the lunch pause I caught it), I went home with it and she was non-stop trying to grab my other hand when I presented it to her
Hyennavernhya Von Ragnarok caught* not catched
@@Eclipse_101 thanks
@@hyennavernhyavonragnarok3999you dont have to follow the grammar police. Lol
@@lucienberl I'm French so I still make some mistakes, I appreciate the fact that someone correct me
Surprising how the nemesis of the Murder Hornets are quite docile to humans, Murder Hornets kills anything, Praying Mantis kills only the necessary
It's anything they can grab, remember? 😅
Yup, if they could hold you down they would eat ya
Nobody: orchid mantis
Me: it’s a walking flower 🌸
I think that's the point of the colors and style. its meant to disguise itself as a flower so predators dont attack it
That’s quite a lot of bells you have there
Lol
*TIME FOR DEBT*
Shut up. Not everything needs to be a videogame reference
@@Mr_Fancypants ouch who hurt you
@@C0C009 me getting tired of these comments
I feel like theyre sentient and aware enough to a level of actual house pets, such as pigs, dogs, cats, etc. Cause they seem to really understand what "playing" is
I would highly doubt they are aware of playing, judging by just how small they are and therefore how small their brain is, but mantises are intelligent for their size
@@ziggyboi4880 microcomputers
I wouldn't compare them to mammals, just from a purely neurological point of view, but there is actually evidence that suggests a lot of insects understand the concept of play and do it in the wild. It's just that their definition of play is so simplistic that it doesn't look like much to us, but it's happening and it's useful socially.
That orchid mantis is one pretty bug, and this is coming from someone that fears bugs
It's so cute, I'd definitely hold it
@@bobble13345 Eugen is it you?
Lol Blathers that you
“They kind of kill their prey by eating them to death.” UHMMMM *sweats nervously*
"Not even capable of hurting you." I have been bitten or pinched once, and it did hurt, but I fully admit it was my fault, I was like 3 and I tried grabbing it roughly, it felt threatened and in turn bit or pinched me, thus making me drop it. Now when I hold a mantis, I am very gentle, these are such fascinating creatures and I absolutely adore them, easily tying for my favorite bug pet with scorpions.
Scorpions can kill you
Same
Bfgbmhbgm scorpions?
I did the same thing with a big dragonfly at a similar age, my parents didn't believe me when I said it bit me tho.
Sidenote: It's apparently very effective tho as we still remember this decades later while meanwhile forgetting where we put our coffee cup 30 seconds ago.
@@prestonthemetapod1484 only like 15 species of scorpion can actually harm humans to any significant degree. Depending on where you live the scorpions might be pretty harmless.
Everyone else at 3am: ZzZZzzZzzzZ.
Me: watches a bug crawl on a guys hand for 10 minutes.
Fucking right! Its 2:35 am atm. Woke the wife to watch this
Garrett Howard exactly
Its 3:26 am when i watched this 😅😅
HOW THE FUCK DID YOU KNOW IT'S 3:58 RN?????
Oh my gosh same except it's 4:29 AM lol
Mantis : **walk to another hand and repeat** What the kind of eternity hell is this
“They kill their prey by eating them to death”
Yeah, and if the male bores the female when reproducing she kills him and eats him as well
People die when they're killed. So do bugs.
I feel bad for the man married to her lol 😂
@@sirenhead7286 yeah lmao, mantis are pretty damn metal
@@SolangeAbri tell me about it 😂
My beautiful mantis pearl died yesterday, i got a new one but I really miss my orchid mantis
Feby * sorry to hear that🤧 Mantids are great pets with their own little personalities and I love them😍
R.I.P. I’m sorry. I know how you feel. I had a pet tarantula that died. I decided to not get a pet for a while though...
*КТО ЭТО ? чТО ЭТО ЗА ЧУДО ????*
Ainsley the meat rubber my parents bought me it just after,It wasn’t my choice, I loved her with my whole heart and was gonna get another one while it was alive
@@Ainsley_the_meat_rubber that was unnecessarily rude, don't you think? Everyone grieves differently. My cat died in July due to an unfortunate accident. I was devastated. We we're planning on adopting another cat (so we'd have 2) anyways, but after she passed we got two. Within two weeks we had another cat. And 7 days after that, then we had 2. I love them so much. My pets are my whole world. Everyone deals with things differently.
I used to own two Praying Mantises. One was a Chinese Mantis while the other was just a common Green Mantis. I named the green one Medusa and the brown one Dillan. I never counted on Dillan and Medusa being different genders! I was like six, so I couldn't understand why Medusa would make these four large egg sacks on the top of their habitat and eat Dillan's head! A while later, I came home from school and my mom was freaking out, yelling that there were little baby mantises loose in the house! They slipped through the breathing holes! May I remind you that I was six so I kept them in a Hermit Crab cage. We found them all around the room, but most of them escaped to the window already and were just chilling on the screen.
dark fang awwww I used to catch praying mantis too (NZ native type). I remember having babies escape too 😅 good times
These wholesome stories are what I live for :)
Same 😫 I used a hermit crab cage too 😔
Were they native? Cuz they could be dangerous loose
@@takutolovex stfu
I've always thought mantises were among the coolest of insects. They're terrifying up close, but they do make great pets. I remember when I was little there was a mantis that liked to hang out on a stump near my deck. I would go out and feed him little flies I'd caught and he'd reach out and grab them from me until he was done. Then he'd chill on my hand until he wanted to go home. He only lasted a few months before I never saw him again, but it was still really cool
Thats so wholesomee
Definitely thinking of owning a mantis someday, but I need to get over my bug fear 😂
Edit: By bug fear I mean the mantis’s food, not the mantis itself lol
@Dingo Dan eww
@Dingo Dan wtf
@Dingo Dan why would you do that? They can feel things just like you can, if your going to treat them like that you shouldn't have them.
@Dingo Dan You are clearly one of those pathetic little humans who feel the need to abuse others to compensate for your small self esteem, since you can't mess with someone your size you resort to mess with insects.
Dingo Dan insects definitely feel pain.
It looks like a little fairy. 🧚♀️
This little fairy is SAVAGE 🤣
IT SLOWLY EATS IT'S PRAY TO DEATH
3:23
This what I got from this “My girlfriend is great, she loves it when my pets die”
This is cute but if it started flying I’d pass out 😭
bruv mood 😔
same, they rarely fly though
@@melcurina i used to have a male orchid mantis that one day i looked and he shedded , i took the lid off and he started flying around my room lol
@@footfungus666 I'm pretty sure that males don't have wings or was it the opposite..
@@keri7031 they can both have wings but im pretty sure only the males fly
That mantis is like: Yo, there is no end to this!
Maybe the Mantis has Silver Chariot.
@@diegobrandoansweryou562 is that jojo reference
Actually the most beautiful insect I have ever seen.
I think we found Flick's youtube account.
Also, my mantis loves watching my fishes. I set his enclosure by the tank and he has a spot where he always sits and watches, like a cat watching birds. I think neon tetras are small enough to entice him as prey.
I had a pet mantis the summer when i was living in greece. found him on a garden tree and took him in my hands and played for a while. i fed him flies and that's where he began to be friends with me. He never left his tree and i would always catch flies and feed them to him. After having him for a while he started developing wings and one day he wasnt at his tree anymore. I still have photos of him on my old iPad.
Farewell Mr. Snapper, you will not be forgotten!
Well....I think you mean Mrs Snapper...
I heard: "it came with the mail...."
Ok.
"the mail died".
Wut!!? OOOOOH, MALE! I get it!
😂
Yeah im slow 😂
my thoughts, too, mate! I am slow as well.... and english is not my mother tounge^^ hehe 😜
The male was probably eaten?
X'D Same.
BRuh XD
Landlord: no dog!
Me: *gets pet boar instead.*
Pigs are wild pets but so fun and have the best personalities
Don’t hit me with the decisive strike
Orchid mantis:*Cute*,*Harmless* and *not going to eat me*
Me when Orchid Mantis grab on my shirt:*Panicked*
I used to think they were fairies in disguise as a kid; I still think the same now ☺️
That's so cute
Adorable
Ree G. Awww ✨
oh gosh thats so cute!!!
Haha reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke
“So what do you do for work?”
I breed mantis
“Wha-“
You heard me
Mantis is the most graceful insect ever, period.
"fairly kinda humanoid"
WHAT KIND OF HUMANS DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE
For an insect they are incredibly humanoid being upright and having appendages they use like arms rather than the typical leg usage, so yeah, I think they’re pretty easy to humanize.
@@haosmagnaingram6992 Also, their head has a larger range of movement and is more differentiated from the rest of their body (almost like they have an actual neck), which makes the seem less compact and much more human as they look around
He explains because of the face, legs and arm. I actually find it very fascinating, unlike any other insects, they have appendages.
@Dan Nguyen dont be offensive to the mantis
@@diegogonzalez9877 ahh that is why as a kid im strangely not creep out by Mantis becauae they have human quality in them.
Because they are familiar to humans and not as alien as like centipede and roaches
There must be some psychology to this.
Adorable! Those are hard to find. I have found one from a breeder and named her Sakura, since her legs look like sakura blossoms. She's so shy with other people beside me though, I gave her a little tunnel in her tank (it's a large tank so she has a lot of space) and she hides in it 24/7. But oh no, when feeding time comes, she just yeets outta her tube like:
*i have been summoned*
my chinese mantis actually did start chewing on my finger once, but it didnt really hurt. it was just a funny feeling
also you have basically the same set up as i do for my mantids! (Giant Ball jars with mesh lids and a stick+substrate). I haven't had a ghost yet but I've had spiny flower and orchid.
Yeah I mean they eat through insect carapace, I figure a big muhfuqa would love a finger to snack on 😂
Same as human version of chinese, they tried to eat everything that moves
@@MyIzzu1 LMAO!!!
Randall Nerd I had a Chinese mantis as a kid as well. Jaws was an amazing lady.
This showed up in my recommended after I was watching a bunch of animal crossing videos
Coincidence? _I think not_
The orchid mantis is so beautiful
This gorgeous walking flower mantis reaches out and loves when he let's her walk along his hand. That's so sweet
i bet the orchid mantis i like:
":O"
"a tiny jungle gym!!"
my mom used to play with mantis as a child, she’d kill any other insect nowadays, but DO NOT ever mention killing a mantis near that woman.
3:35 when it reached out its arms to get to your finger, I was like "AWW" lol
As beautiful as they are, I'm always scared to piss them off.
However I gotta admit, watching your mantis climbing on your hands is very captivating.
I lived in Tenerife a while back and there's millions of them. Blepharopsis mendica or the devil's flower mantis. Fascinating insects and quite large at around 5 inches long.
When i used to live in Tennessee i would catch praying manties all the time they were a bug part of my childhood i spent endless hours catching grasshoppers and crickets to feed and take care of i even had a few that mated and layed egg sacks and i would have hundreds of little baby manaties all around my house when i let them go but yes they are beautiful creatures
Lmao I annoyed a cricket I found to the point of biting me
Then it left
Good luck lil cricket
Ender Ssor Last time I saw a praying mantis, it was clinging to a window where I worked. I put in a plastic cup to bring it back outside. I was a bit nervous holding it, since they eat numerous insects as well as their husbands. Don’t they bite?
Never had a mantis pet, but one time I was sitting in my yard, the wind was blowing, and a green mantis fell out of our orange tree and right into my hair.
Animal crossing irl
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now i find most bugs gross, no offence, but i find the mantis reaching for your fingers quite cute
What a beauty the orchid mantis is. I would lose time letting her crawl on my fingers over and over. Mesmerizing.
Their only downside is that they don’t live long enough. They would probably be the best pet otherwise, I wish they lived as long as tarantulas..
KenReyUbeSensei C: how long is their lifespan?
erickmojojojo averaging from a year, some of the bigger species have lived to a year and a half.
What I think would be cool is if they were bigger, when there was HUGE amounts of oxygen on earth compared to the current couple of millions of years of oxygen levels, bugs were way bigger than today's, and I mean GIANT bugs! Some could be bigger than a cat! And I know that they probably wouldn't survive with the current oxygen levels but I'd love to have a big orchid mantis so I wouldn't have to be scared of accidentally stepping on it or something, but the orchid mantis and maybe butterflies are the only acception because I don't also want a huge poison spider or something living in my house I'd *n o t* like it at all
AA0 I would be more worried about the mantis taking my finger off if it mistakes my finger for a worm, and yeah, a big house spider wouldn’t sound nice at all!
@@kenjiro2676 lol right, guess I didn't think that part through !
I just bought a pretty sizeable tank (10 gallons) for my mantis that willl be here next week! It is the first one I'll have every gotten! Cant wait to give the lil fella the best life possible :)
remember when a wild mantis flew in on me and the fam. Was holding it in my hand when mum tried to take a picture with her phone and it decided to fly onto the phone lmao.
She didn't know where it went until it poked its head out at her from behind the phone.
She’s the most beautiful little being I have even seen. That pastel pink and white colour combination is stunning.
I never thought of giving them honey, that's adorable!
Enthusiclast: *able to tame a praying mantis*
Me: trying to tame a dog
Dog: *bites*
Oh they're not tame at all. They're just too small to hurt you.
Praying mantis: the middle ground between cat and dog.
When I saw the thumbnail
Orchid mantis....?
Animal crossing
So?
Animal crossing is boring
Ayyyyee exactly what i thought lol
@@blackmonalisa9732 😂 to some yes, but a lot of us find it therapeutic and calming.
Except when you're being chased down by tarantulas, wasps, and scorpions.
Animal crossing gang ^^ ✌
ORCHID MANTISES ARE SO PRECIOUS IM CRYING
This is actually the video that introduced me into the mantis keeping hobby! I’ve watched it over a year ago not knowing that you can keep these beautiful creatures as pets. Thank you so much for changing my life
Also if your mantis will eat them, locusts are safer than crickets as crickets have dormant bacteria than can be harmful to mantids occasionally, also locusts won't really bite back.
There are ways to buy safe crickets though but I get what you mean.
I prefer locust too as my crickets tend to get viruses and die whilst locust, if placed into a proper environment too, can live a long time.
A pet store at least a UK one has very good control when it comes to fungus virus es and stuff like that
@@ycylchgames Also crickets (mainly black crickets) can bite back, with locusts the only thing you have to worry about is the sharp back legs (which locusts can detach at will and wont mind too much if you take them off if you're worried they'll hurt your mantis)
@@TheAmazingCobalt Actually the crickets I used to use could detach their legs too and did quite often. Maybe its because they were a UK breed?
It is probably the most gorgeous insect I have ever seen..
Orchid on hand: shaky old lady crossing the street
Orchid on stick: the confidence and gratitude of someone who was floating on driftwood at sea for a couple days finally reaching land
It’s adorable how they crawl along his fingers, but omg I’m terrified of bugs, I could never-
wow her magenta pigment is so beautiful her look is so flowery that I can feel the perfume
I love my praying mantis I was fortunate enough to see esmeralda standing in the middle of the front door as if she was waiting for me to bring her home 💜😊💜👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
the way she stretches her little arms... so cute....
Looks like something a female supervillain in a batman movie would have a pet
They are amazing! I have them too. My orchid mantis died 3 months after she got her wings. Loved her so much! 🌸
I absolutely love praying mantis, your statement on them being humanoid is true, especially their mannerisms.
Hey I just got into the Mantis hobby and your videos have really helped me out. I started when I found a Female Arizona Tan Mantis at our mailbox and she laid an Ooth. Now I have her, the ooth, and two little Indian Flower Mantis females. I'd love to see more of your videos on your critters. Great Video!!!
@Dingo Dan Nah I'm good. One of my Indian Flowers dances with my Mom and that's all the entertainment I need. ;)
Oarfish36 nah don’t mind that freak show. He’s desperate for attention.
Dingo Dan should be reported to a therapist cus your sadistic comments are horrible at seeking attention
Literally the prettiest insects I've laid eyes on!
kind of fell in love with the orchid after that stunning introduction...
I am deeply terrified of bugs, especially cockroaches, but beautiful mantises like your orchid mantis help me get rid of that fear. They also kill the pests in my house ^_^
She’s so beautiful she looks like a little walking flower ☺️