If any new guys are looking for info watch this video. I've clicked on a few and this is the one I was looking for. It's the best starting point I've found. Great video.
I just started keeping mantises because I've always been scared to keep them and with the short life span. Scared meaning that I don't want to mess up and kill them on accident. Now I know they are a species that I will be keeping them for the foreseeable future. I ended up getting 2 female and 1 male ghost mantis and 2 Indian flower male mantis. I'm hooked! Thank you for the video and if you keep it, keep it crawling bro! Thank you for all you do. I'd love to send you a custom vivarium and see what you think. Hit me up.
Wow, what a tremendous amount of information in this video! I learned more from it than all the other mantid videos I've watched together! I will definitely be buying from you once I decide what kind I want! Thank you!
I've been raising Chinese mantids for several years. I release thousands in my area and keep many to raise. I make my own fruit fly cultures and buy pinhead crickets. It's a fantastic hobby and I get a couple of pets in the process. I just wish they lived longer.
I watched this video years ago and today was the day I actually had to use this method. Woke up this morning to a ton of babies. I have 20 little buggerz in cloth lid 32 oz cups right now. Your awesome man
Moonlight Mantids hey my name is tamya for some reason Your website doesn’t pop up on safari or google but I really want to buy some mantis from you it’s gonna be my first time hope to hear from you 😁
Oh I forgot to add....thank you for showing and speaking of the Jerusalem Cricket....I saw one of those in California in a flower garden also. Nice to know and learn more about new things. It's how I stay young. Learning new things.
Superb! - My grandmother ordered 2 oothecas from a flower catalog when I was a kid and gave me one. My grandfather laughed us to scorn and said there were 100s on the edges of his field. He was correct. :D - Every few years I'll raise a few and they are common at our place. Also raise bees, and that can get to be a stand-off. I realize this was a while ago, but really appreciate this info. Learned so much! 👍😀
just found your page :) i raise Mantids, i find 3-22 a yr breed and release the babies in the spring, then as they are a lil older L3-L4 i catch again and repeat. i have 3 now. one yr i had 22 i only had 8 in containers the rest were free range, mostly in windows, cieling corners, each had their own spot, boy was it a pain to feed them all having to climb on chairs to reach them. keep up the good work
hi my 2 praying mantis are in l3 of molting. I'm pretty sure that it is a common Chinese mantis. but I am unsure as to how often they eat. So far I can say one of them has had one cricket each day for 3 days in a row since I've had them. I got mine Thursday(25th)
I thought about getting a mantis for a while. Then a huge one (probably female) somehow magically appeared in my room last summer. It flew and landed on my air conditioner, I actually thought it was a bat at first! Took half an hour of using a large plastic container, a roll of Christmas wrapping paper, and a barking terrier mix to get that thing out the window. Didn't want one anymore. Now I'm interested in them again. It seems like they aren't to hard to take care of and wouldn't get out of the cup.
I live in Boston I walk to my shed last night and found a pre-mantis the size of a dime laying on the ground. After watching your video now the little fucker is in good health thank you 🙏🏼
How often should I feed my preying mantis nymph? So far I've been putting about 6 flightless fruit flys in its container and it eats them right away. Should I continuously make sure there is a few in its container at all times. Should I feed it once a day? Can you feed it too much? What is the right amount?
Hi everyone. Has anyone gotten a respond from this guy yet? Why keep a 6 yr post trending if you dont plan on answering questions? I just found a female praying mantis making her egg caccoon , n I have alot of questions myself. Anyone gets an answer please share with us all?
Martin Otero Santos nope i haven’t gotten a response. idk if you use facebook but i found a great group that answered all my mantis questions: it’s called Mantis Keepers! 😊
My daughter and I found a wild Carolina mantis this past summer. We let it go in my flower bed, and it literally walked back over to us...twice. So we took her inside, and found it was amazingly tame. She would allow us to hand feed her, and seemed to enjoy hanging out on our sleeves, shoulder, etc. She ended up laying 3 egg sacs, a week or so in-between, before passing about a month later. From the first egg sac, 6 babies hatched 4 days ago, and another 6 came out last night. From what I've read, there could be 50-100 in each sac, and all 3 appear fertile. I'm not equipped to care for 300 baby mantids. So my question is this, do you keep your babies in those 2oz deli cups, or should I go ahead and put them in the large cups? We have about 2 more weeks before it would be safe to let them outside. Unless you'd like to have the other 2 egg sacs, in which case I'd happily send them to you.
Hi kevin. My name is Patrick and i was wondering if you still make vids. Possibly on another channel. I got a few questions on ghost mantis. Could you please reply. I'd appreciate it. Thank you😃
they so cute :) i love mantis ,i had once like bday present , never been bitten ,always next to me and scary thing for my family , they loved me :D but it was so long time ago , i wish to have mantis again ,but sadly im live in Lithuania .... very far away :)
Awesome video! We would like to meet you! You look like an interesting person! :) We found a large 4-5" praying mantis last fall and let her live on a small amber lampshade from Poland. We have many videos of her eating and playing! She lived in our home on the lamp for a couple months and had 2 ootheca s, which we put in the refrigerator. Two days ago, we took one out and made an aquarium with sticks therein. We now see that we need to put some cloth on our homemade screen that is duck-taped around the aquarium. We wonder now, if perhaps the 10 gallon aquarium is too large? My husband Stephane does art and would like to share some of his art with you if you would like, and we drive his and her-ses?
I'm raising Mediterranean Mantids from birth. A surprising number of them are dying. I think the problem may be their inability to digest food. One just ate a fly for more than an hour and its abdomen doesn't seem to show any food in it. It's like it's not fully swallowing the fly and can't finish eating it, as if it's like a human being trying to eat a hamburger with no liquid to wash it down. I'm in Las Vegas. They've survived 120 degrees and months without rain. I was told that they didn't need to drink any water because they got enough from their food, so I haven't been giving them any water. They don't seem to be molting as often as I had expected. Could lack of water explain their difficulty molting and swallowing?
I posted a couple times on your diff vids I also sent you a msg on your FB. I found a nymph on my tire yesterday and brought him in. He (she?) is in a plastic tupperwear with a mesh lid I made, secured with the tupp lid, but the inside is cut out so the mesh is exposed, Ryder lol can breathe. Ok. There's some rocks in there for him to hike around on, a stick just like yours, and i squirted a tiny bit of water into a corner, tilted the container so the water would stay. I'll be damned if Ryder - this morning - didn't get under his stick hand upside down and MOULT right then and there, like boom! His shed skin is there So I know that's what he did (you said don't bother them when they do this and I did not but he did it SO fast!) I need food for him, I don't have a PetCo etc only a WalMart, so I hope I can find something?? for him to eat? I have the 32oz wingless fruit fly culture in my cart on your site. What else do I need right now? I don't want him to die!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Just had two oothecas hatch of Tenodera sinensis and got 500 nymphs. Curiously, one ootheca displayed aggressive cannibalism with its nymphs. The other has yet to show any signs of cannibalism and is over 2 weeks older. I love mantids more than any insect
I tried to look you up on face book. What name are you under on there? I thought your presentation seemed really knowledgeable...and direct in your passion. Question: We are keeping crickets to feed our pet mantids. I dunno what we are doing wrong but its hard to imagine anyone keeping mantids as pets when its costing an arm and leg to feed them. And we had a huge set up for these crickets.... but they keep dying. Please dont recommend roaches because im phobic of roaches. I can barely type the name. Im already triggored. Thanks
QUESTIONS! 1.Do you sell the eggs and at what price? 2.Can you send me a link to your site? i cant find it. 3.Can other species breed with each other. 4.Can a chinese mantis live with other ones without killing it. I really want another mantis,your vids rock,and hope to hear back soon! :D oh and p.s i found my chinese mantis outside but ive domesticated it so you might want to take that into account with question 4. and oooone more tiny thing lol you should make a tour vid of all of your mantids!
You were talking about them having a full abdomen. We caught one and her abdomen was completely flat. It was brown and got lighter as it went inward, like a tree knot in a kid's drawing. We think she was starving outside because we could not find ANY bugs out. It was a dry summer. Your thoughts?
feeder roaches are great and i have lots of experience with them. as for a nymph food? like L1 ...not happening. roaches are 3 times the size of a nymph not sure what breed your getting
i take small new house plant...hot pepper plant and grow it in a dixie cup. over water the plant till nats come and place it in your mantis enclosure... buying fruit fly and breeding them wasnt efficient enough for me. 10-20$ for a fly culture u can create in a week
so i have a quick question that i feel like you may have answered but im going to ask it anyway, do you sell whole kits that will last the life of the mantis with out needing to buy any extra things like a cage or something? or is it more of just a starter?
hey man, iv got a new orchid mantis nymph. L3, currently feeding on fruit flies from a culture bought online. the supplier says they are melanogaster however they look bigger like hydei. Does it matter? thanks
Was just hiking around and found an oothooka (however u spell the egg case...) ... I figure if there are a dozen or more that can hatch from this egg case then I can keep a few for breeding purposes (I suppose I will need to catch a few more for ideal genetic diversity health purposes...) and then release the rest into my garden. I suppose I may be giving them an advantage by protecting them through their first instars ??? At what instar should I release them to give them the most advantage? Anyway how did u say I can order flys from u to feed them?
Hey man really nice videos you got they helped me out so far a lot but i got a few questions cause I found two Chinese mantis ootheca(I think) the other day. I live in New York so I assume its one of those two. I was just wondering what temperature I should keep my eggs at and how long will these suckers take to hatch?? Lol winter is coming up and I wouldn't want them to hatch in the middle of it...also when they hatch, should I separate them immediately or let them grow for a while? I need help I don't want them to die so hopefully you could help. Thanks!
if you place them in a paper bag and put them in your fridge they will overwinter and delay their development until spring if you like, 6 month shelf life. room temp will work. You cant stop them from hatching!
Hey guys, I am a last year University student and I am getting a B.S in Biology. For my genetics class, we had to breed and observe fruit flies. In order to keep them from flying away, we put them in the freezer for about 1-2 minutes. This does not kill them but just knocks them out long enough for us to determine the sex of the fruit fly and allow us to transfer them to start a new culture. The way I planned to feed my mantis fruit flies is by knocking them out for an easy transfer then placing a couple in the container. They will wake up and the mantis will be able to eat!! CAUTION: If you leave your fruit flies in the freezer too long YOU WILL KILL THEM. Also, you need to be careful because leaving them in the freezer too long can also sterilize the flies. Also once you are done with the culture and you dont want to keep the culture, I usually let the adults go free outside but put the rest of the culture in the freezer overnight. This will make for an easy clean up and is a sure way to keep those flies from not hatching in your garbage can. The freezer method also works for house flies and other insects. But the same terms apply. Just a little tidbit! Who knew breeding fruit flies would come in handy some day?
i have 3 different oothecas of the more common species such as the carolina, chinese , and european. I have them in diapause till maybe mid march or middle of april just so they hatch in time of late may early june. Can't wait hahah
I ordered a mantis egg case, unfortunately not from you, because I found you after I ordered it. But I will be ordering some stuff from ya anyways. But I have a question for you. I've seen other videos saying as soon as they hatch, release them into the gardens and outside. Is this true, or should I wait until they're bigger. I am going to release some into my gardens, we live at a greenhouse business, but I do want to keep and raise some too. Thank you
can i put an adult creobroter gemmtaus and an adult moss mantis insisde a 12 oz deli cup ? and when they're at L1 can they eat flying fruit flies and springtails ?
hi I have several ootheca for Chinese mantids but I have been searching high and low for a orchid mantis or or an orchid ootheca do you know where I can get? I want to broaden my hobby and my kids love watching them eat
You seem very knowledgeable so I would like to ask a couple questions. I have someone sending me six egg sacs to hatch for my garden. How long do they take too hatch? I want to release them straight into my garden but I hear they don’t like cold weather and my last frost is in. Early April.
Great video. Full of knowledge you are. Lol. I have a couple of ooths. I thought they were sterile. One hatched without my knowledge and they all died. I have another ooth and I want to monitor it for hatching. I need a Fruit Fly culture in case the next hatches. How can a purchase one from you? Thanks! I look forward to your reply.
Hi I'm from Ontario Canada and I'm getting a 2L Shield Mantis next week .I'm just wondering about there temperament and handling and basic care .I have a 1 gal plastic jar I bought and put a mesh screen in the lid and the substrate is Bio .I have 1 problem and it's the food source .I can get Crickets but flightless fruit flies are next to impossible near me .Is there anything else I can get for the baby ?
It's brilliant to see someone who clearly cares more about the development of their hobby than profit.
I tip my hat to you, good sir.
Finally! Somebody who answered all of my questions. You rock. Thank you!
My GF was a nympho. Tried to take care of her according to your video guide. She did not like the plastic cup enclosure I had for her and left me :(
WRONG TYPE OF NYMPH
That's your own fault. He didn't make you order it.
bukifuriku I’m sorry that ur gf left you
what was the humidity in the enclosure
Did you leave the lid off?
My praying mantis died when he was molting from crickets. They bit his abdomen. BE CAREFUL!
It’s Chloe Only feed one at a time and make sure that the cricket bastard gets eaten whole. Problem solved.
Never happened to mine cos i knew already. Yeah. Agreed.
Same
Ugh that’s absolutely horrible I absolutely hate crickets now
Yeah I think he mispoke. Crickets will 100% attack your mantis.
How the fuck did I get here and why did I find this entire video so riveting?!
If any new guys are looking for info watch this video. I've clicked on a few and this is the one I was looking for. It's the best starting point I've found. Great video.
I just started keeping mantises because I've always been scared to keep them and with the short life span. Scared meaning that I don't want to mess up and kill them on accident. Now I know they are a species that I will be keeping them for the foreseeable future. I ended up getting 2 female and 1 male ghost mantis and 2 Indian flower male mantis. I'm hooked! Thank you for the video and if you keep it, keep it crawling bro! Thank you for all you do. I'd love to send you a custom vivarium and see what you think. Hit me up.
This is one of the best videos on this subject, keep making great videos!
Wow, what a tremendous amount of information in this video! I learned more from it than all the other mantid videos I've watched together! I will definitely be buying from you once I decide what kind I want! Thank you!
I've been raising Chinese mantids for several years. I release thousands in my area and keep many to raise. I make my own fruit fly cultures and buy pinhead crickets. It's a fantastic hobby and I get a couple of pets in the process. I just wish they lived longer.
I watched this video years ago and today was the day I actually had to use this method. Woke up this morning to a ton of babies. I have 20 little buggerz in cloth lid 32 oz cups right now. Your awesome man
Aggressively shakes mantis while talking about it
I take this as a sign of love
Kevin this video is brillaint and very informative, really enjoyed it!
mo s t informative quick video. never gotten so much info in such a quick time
You put real thought into evolving a workable system for raising these fascinating insects: I've yet to check out your website but I intend to-
Thank you
Moonlight Mantids hey my name is tamya for some reason Your website doesn’t pop up on safari or google but I really want to buy some mantis from you it’s gonna be my first time hope to hear from you 😁
@@MoonlightMantids can you please send me the link to we're I can get a mantis and fly culture
Oh I forgot to add....thank you for showing and speaking of the Jerusalem Cricket....I saw one of those in California in a flower garden also. Nice to know and learn more about new things. It's how I stay young. Learning new things.
"Brace yourselves!!!...Winter is coming!!!" -Ned Stark and Kevin young!! 😎
Superb! - My grandmother ordered 2 oothecas from a flower catalog when I was a kid and gave me one. My grandfather laughed us to scorn and said there were 100s on the edges of his field. He was correct. :D - Every few years I'll raise a few and they are common at our place. Also raise bees, and that can get to be a stand-off. I realize this was a while ago, but really appreciate this info. Learned so much! 👍😀
just found your page :) i raise Mantids, i find 3-22 a yr breed and release the babies in the spring, then as they are a lil older L3-L4 i catch again and repeat. i have 3 now. one yr i had 22 i only had 8 in containers the rest were free range, mostly in windows, cieling corners, each had their own spot, boy was it a pain to feed them all having to climb on chairs to reach them. keep up the good work
hey, just came across your videos and they are helping me out a ton. Sad to see you're not uploading anymore, you're really interesting!
hi my 2 praying mantis are in l3 of molting. I'm pretty sure that it is a common Chinese mantis. but I am unsure as to how often they eat. So far I can say one of them has had one cricket each day for 3 days in a row since I've had them. I got mine Thursday(25th)
I'm just getting started. Some really good info in this video, especially for a noob like myself. Count me in.....I'm subscribing!
How do I get to your website?
I thought about getting a mantis for a while. Then a huge one (probably female) somehow magically appeared in my room last summer. It flew and landed on my air conditioner, I actually thought it was a bat at first! Took half an hour of using a large plastic container, a roll of Christmas wrapping paper, and a barking terrier mix to get that thing out the window. Didn't want one anymore. Now I'm interested in them again. It seems like they aren't to hard to take care of and wouldn't get out of the cup.
Upon doing a bit more research I think it was a Chinese mantis.
if it flew then it was a male as females cant fly
I live in Boston I walk to my shed last night and found a pre-mantis the size of a dime laying on the ground. After watching your video now the little fucker is in good health thank you 🙏🏼
How often should I feed my preying mantis nymph? So far I've been putting about 6 flightless fruit flys in its container and it eats them right away. Should I continuously make sure there is a few in its container at all times. Should I feed it once a day? Can you feed it too much? What is the right amount?
Do you still sell Mantis and cultures? I would totally buy from you but this was uploaded 6 years ago. Please lmk 💖✨
i've also been wondering this same thing!!
Me too please reply
Same here im extremely interested
Hi everyone. Has anyone gotten a respond from this guy yet? Why keep a 6 yr post trending if you dont plan on answering questions? I just found a female praying mantis making her egg caccoon , n I have alot of questions myself. Anyone gets an answer please share with us all?
Martin Otero Santos nope i haven’t gotten a response. idk if you use facebook but i found a great group that answered all my mantis questions: it’s called Mantis Keepers! 😊
How long can a baby mantis live without food?
Excellent video and love your entrepreneurial spirit! I'll be a customer this week.
My daughter and I found a wild Carolina mantis this past summer. We let it go in my flower bed, and it literally walked back over to us...twice. So we took her inside, and found it was amazingly tame. She would allow us to hand feed her, and seemed to enjoy hanging out on our sleeves, shoulder, etc. She ended up laying 3 egg sacs, a week or so in-between, before passing about a month later. From the first egg sac, 6 babies hatched 4 days ago, and another 6 came out last night. From what I've read, there could be 50-100 in each sac, and all 3 appear fertile. I'm not equipped to care for 300 baby mantids. So my question is this, do you keep your babies in those 2oz deli cups, or should I go ahead and put them in the large cups? We have about 2 more weeks before it would be safe to let them outside. Unless you'd like to have the other 2 egg sacs, in which case I'd happily send them to you.
i love these bugs
Great video. These were the first problems I had raising some Chinese mantids. I wish I had all this info early on. Thanks for sharing.
This video was SUPEr helpful! I just got a nypmh myself and this was alot of info I needed. Thank you!!
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Really enjoy the videos! They've really informed & helped me on my experiences on caring for these brilliant insects!
watching your vids in 2021. Thank you for the info and tips!
Do you have any idea what an Asian baby pray mantis eat. Mine will not eat.
Very good video . Decent info. Thanks
Great introduction for new / future keepers like me. Nice one!
You’re amazing! I almost feel guilty messing with praying mantids after seeing how well you do this...!
Hi kevin. My name is Patrick and i was wondering if you still make vids. Possibly on another channel. I got a few questions on ghost mantis. Could you please reply. I'd appreciate it. Thank you😃
Just wanted to say, Excellent Video, Great prices on your site too! Thanks!
they so cute :) i love mantis ,i had once like bday present , never been bitten ,always next to me and scary thing for my family , they loved me :D but it was so long time ago , i wish to have mantis again ,but sadly im live in Lithuania .... very far away :)
Awesome video! We would like to meet you! You look like an interesting person! :) We found a large 4-5" praying mantis last fall and let her live on a small amber lampshade from Poland. We have many videos of her eating and playing! She lived in our home on the lamp for a couple months and had 2 ootheca s, which we put in the refrigerator. Two days ago, we took one out and made an aquarium with sticks therein. We now see that we need to put some cloth on our homemade screen that is duck-taped around the aquarium. We wonder now, if perhaps the 10 gallon aquarium is too large? My husband Stephane does art and would like to share some of his art with you if you would like, and we drive his and her-ses?
That’s neat!
Thank you for all the info! Sadly i cant buy from you because i live in germany and i want a nearby shop but you helped me soo much. Big thanks!
I'm raising Mediterranean Mantids from birth. A surprising number of them are dying. I think the problem may be their inability to digest food. One just ate a fly for more than an hour and its abdomen doesn't seem to show any food in it. It's like it's not fully swallowing the fly and can't finish eating it, as if it's like a human being trying to eat a hamburger with no liquid to wash it down. I'm in Las Vegas. They've survived 120 degrees and months without rain. I was told that they didn't need to drink any water because they got enough from their food, so I haven't been giving them any water. They don't seem to be molting as often as I had expected. Could lack of water explain their difficulty molting and swallowing?
Love your videos Man professional and straightforward no bulshit can't wait to get my mantises from you ordering soon CID out!
Great video! You answered every question I wanted to ask in one hit!
Thanks
Thank you for this video! I'm looking to get into the hobby and this answered all my questions!
Hey I didn't realize it, but I just ordered a budwing from you. I'm excited to receive it!
I posted a couple times on your diff vids I also sent you a msg on your FB. I found a nymph on my tire yesterday and brought him in. He (she?) is in a plastic tupperwear with a mesh lid I made, secured with the tupp lid, but the inside is cut out so the mesh is exposed, Ryder lol can breathe. Ok. There's some rocks in there for him to hike around on, a stick just like yours, and i squirted a tiny bit of water into a corner, tilted the container so the water would stay. I'll be damned if Ryder - this morning - didn't get under his stick hand upside down and MOULT right then and there, like boom! His shed skin is there So I know that's what he did (you said don't bother them when they do this and I did not but he did it SO fast!) I need food for him, I don't have a PetCo etc only a WalMart, so I hope I can find something?? for him to eat? I have the 32oz wingless fruit fly culture in my cart on your site. What else do I need right now? I don't want him to die!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Just had two oothecas hatch of Tenodera sinensis and got 500 nymphs. Curiously, one ootheca displayed aggressive cannibalism with its nymphs. The other has yet to show any signs of cannibalism and is over 2 weeks older. I love mantids more than any insect
What can I feed my L1 cryptic mantids that hatched. As pinhead crickets and fruitflies are too big ?
Could I feed an adult budwing mantis mealworms? I have a lot extra from my leopard geckos.
Great video and website. Expect an order coming from me soon. Keep up the great videos.
Great video man
I tried to look you up on face book. What name are you under on there? I thought your presentation seemed really knowledgeable...and direct in your passion. Question: We are keeping crickets to feed our pet mantids. I dunno what we are doing wrong but its hard to imagine anyone keeping mantids as pets when its costing an arm and leg to feed them. And we had a huge set up for these crickets.... but they keep dying. Please dont recommend roaches because im phobic of roaches. I can barely type the name. Im already triggored. Thanks
QUESTIONS!
1.Do you sell the eggs and at what price?
2.Can you send me a link to your site? i cant find it.
3.Can other species breed with each other.
4.Can a chinese mantis live with other ones without killing it.
I really want another mantis,your vids rock,and hope to hear back soon! :D
oh and p.s i found my chinese mantis outside but ive domesticated it so you might want to take that into account with question 4.
and oooone more tiny thing lol you should make a tour vid of all of your mantids!
great video, im just looking into getting mantis but no idea which one to get.. im in the UK.
Giant African or Asian is #1
Malaysian Dead Leaf or the African green. Both grow about 4 or 5 inches. I like Miomantids, Egyptian. Two inch green things that chase their prey.
These videos are great, thank you!
You were talking about them having a full abdomen. We caught one and her abdomen was completely flat. It was brown and got lighter as it went inward, like a tree knot in a kid's drawing. We think she was starving outside because we could not find ANY bugs out. It was a dry summer. Your thoughts?
could you tell us how much time it takes to go fro L1 to L2 To L3 so and so on
Around 2 weeks every time
Yay !!!! Thank You so much ! I had a random egg case hatching , I was so stressed. I had like 100
this was the most useful motherhecking mantis vid ever
Just bought a mantis from you.. hope it’s healthy!!!!
feeder roaches are great and i have lots of experience with them. as for a nymph food? like L1 ...not happening. roaches are 3 times the size of a nymph not sure what breed your getting
It's a wonderful video, but the website is not there. :( But very nice video!
Can u feed mantis adults on just meal worms and can u keep nymphs on just fruit flies
Of course but mealworms i dunno
If your hatching mantis is do you put the newly hatched one in the small cup for a little while or put it in that thing first
Holy Shit!! Your sooooo awesome ! I got so much more info than other place online:} Thank you for sharing this with beginners
i take small new house plant...hot pepper plant and grow it in a dixie cup. over water the plant till nats come and place it in your mantis enclosure... buying fruit fly and breeding them wasnt efficient enough for me. 10-20$ for a fly culture u can create in a week
so i have a quick question that i feel like you may have answered but im going to ask it anyway, do you sell whole kits that will last the life of the mantis with out needing to buy any extra things like a cage or something? or is it more of just a starter?
hey man, iv got a new orchid mantis nymph. L3, currently feeding on fruit flies from a culture bought online. the supplier says they are melanogaster however they look bigger like hydei. Does it matter? thanks
2020 and still useful, great!
this was nice and informational
thanks for the upload
Was just hiking around and found an oothooka (however u spell the egg case...) ... I figure if there are a dozen or more that can hatch from this egg case then I can keep a few for breeding purposes (I suppose I will need to catch a few more for ideal genetic diversity health purposes...) and then release the rest into my garden. I suppose I may be giving them an advantage by protecting them through their first instars ??? At what instar should I release them to give them the most advantage? Anyway how did u say I can order flys from u to feed them?
Hey man really nice videos you got they helped me out so far a lot but i got a few questions cause I found two Chinese mantis ootheca(I think) the other day. I live in New York so I assume its one of those two. I was just wondering what temperature I should keep my eggs at and how long will these suckers take to hatch?? Lol winter is coming up and I wouldn't want them to hatch in the middle of it...also when they hatch, should I separate them immediately or let them grow for a while? I need help I don't want them to die so hopefully you could help. Thanks!
if you place them in a paper bag and put them in your fridge they will overwinter and delay their development until spring if you like, 6 month shelf life. room temp will work. You cant stop them from hatching!
Hey guys,
I am a last year University student and I am getting a B.S in Biology.
For my genetics class, we had to breed and observe fruit flies. In order to keep them from flying away, we put them in the freezer for about 1-2 minutes. This does not kill them but just knocks them out long enough for us to determine the sex of the fruit fly and allow us to transfer them to start a new culture.
The way I planned to feed my mantis fruit flies is by knocking them out for an easy transfer then placing a couple in the container. They will wake up and the mantis will be able to eat!!
CAUTION: If you leave your fruit flies in the freezer too long YOU WILL KILL THEM. Also, you need to be careful because leaving them in the freezer too long can also sterilize the flies. Also once you are done with the culture and you dont want to keep the culture, I usually let the adults go free outside but put the rest of the culture in the freezer overnight. This will make for an easy clean up and is a sure way to keep those flies from not hatching in your garbage can.
The freezer method also works for house flies and other insects. But the same terms apply.
Just a little tidbit! Who knew breeding fruit flies would come in handy some day?
Amazing video! How do you find buyers for your mantids and feeder insects?
You should do a video about making the perfect habitat for mantis like what plants to use
i have 3 different oothecas of the more common species such as the carolina, chinese , and european. I have them in diapause till maybe mid march or middle of april just so they hatch in time of late may early june. Can't wait hahah
I ordered a mantis egg case, unfortunately not from you, because I found you after I ordered it. But I will be ordering some stuff from ya anyways. But I have a question for you. I've seen other videos saying as soon as they hatch, release them into the gardens and outside. Is this true, or should I wait until they're bigger. I am going to release some into my gardens, we live at a greenhouse business, but I do want to keep and raise some too. Thank you
How do you maintain the humidity in the container. Do you have to take the mantid out and spray the water. How often would you do that?
Thanks my meditteranian mantids just hatched last night. Only 2 so far but 1 already caught a flightless fruitfly😂
i just had the egg case i found in the garden fence hatch out mid November. i need to figure out what to do do with about 100 mantises.
How long do they live? I know different kinds have different life spans but in general
Terrific video!
can i put an adult creobroter gemmtaus and an adult moss mantis insisde a 12 oz deli cup ? and when they're at L1 can they eat flying fruit flies and springtails ?
hi I have several ootheca for Chinese mantids but I have been searching high and low for a orchid mantis or or an orchid ootheca do you know where I can get? I want to broaden my hobby and my kids love watching them eat
You seem very knowledgeable so I would like to ask a couple questions. I have someone sending me six egg sacs to hatch for my garden. How long do they take too hatch? I want to release them straight into my garden but I hear they don’t like cold weather and my last frost is in. Early April.
This was a great video!
How can I order from you, I can't get to your page. It keeps saying out of your region ?
Nice koi tank!!!!! What do you do with an egg sac!
On your website, do all of your mantids come in L1 and L2?
Did that mantis start to bite you at 10:51?? Confused as to why the sudden urge to put him back
Is it okay to leave a few flies in the nymph's enclosure after it's done eating, or should I remove them?
Where can I find that mesh for the lids? I’ve been looking everywhere
Great video. Full of knowledge you are. Lol. I have a couple of ooths. I thought they were sterile. One hatched without my knowledge and they all died. I have another ooth and I want to monitor it for hatching. I need a Fruit Fly culture in case the next hatches. How can a purchase one from you? Thanks! I look forward to your reply.
hi please could i have a mantis i realy wont 1 or 2 i dont care what kind of breed it is
Hi I'm from Ontario Canada and I'm getting a 2L Shield Mantis next week .I'm just wondering about there temperament and handling and basic care .I have a 1 gal plastic jar I bought and put a mesh screen in the lid and the substrate is Bio .I have 1 problem and it's the food source .I can get Crickets but flightless fruit flies are next to impossible near me .Is there anything else I can get for the baby ?