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24.08.2010 22:02, Dracus

Evgeny, as I wrote to you in the BOS, in principle, the common mantis is now actively moving north in Europe (Belgium, in particular), in the Far East, in Siberia and the European part, forming stable populations in higher latitudes. The northernmost find before entering the ER was made in the Moscow region, the northernmost confirmed population - in the Tula region.
On the one hand, the trend is very eloquent - the common mantis has made such a leap to the north in the last 10 years at most (for most new points, in general, in the last 5 years). On the other hand, it is impossible to completely exclude flying - males fly quite well, although whether they can travel such long distances is a big question (another option is delivery by transport, then from the place of delivery on their own, but, in principle, I agree that in your case this is unlikely).
In any case, it's a great find. It makes sense to look for a population in those places, that is, to find at least another female - they are not inclined to move any significant distances and will almost certainly be local. Males fly well into the light.

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16.09.2010 10:00, guest: Сеня

There are two subspecies of the common mantis, one small with a length of 4-5cm. the other large 6-7 cm. Judging by the findings in the Kursk Region and the northern part of the Voronezh Region, a small subspecies is distributed to the north, but no large ones were found. The next factor after the winter temperature that affects the distribution of the praying mantis is the availability of food, in the areas that I wrote, the number of insects suitable for food is several times less than in the southern ones, so I assume that a large subspecies that needs much more food is worse distributed or not distributed at all. Tip for those trying to catch the common mantis, look for places where there are a lot of right-winged birds, they are its main prey. And do not just search and pull the grass, with a foot or stick, they react to it, they start to move and give themselves away.

29.09.2010 0:29, Нежданный Гость

I can't say anything about the Chita region, but Mantis religiosa, for example, is actively expanding its range so it has penetrated to the north of Ukraine, to the Smolensk region, to Bashkiria. I am not familiar with the entomofauna of Siberia and the Far East, but I think mantises can enter there from China and Korea. It is reliably recorded that mantis oothecae can survive very low temperatures. We, in the Chernihiv region (Ukraine) this winter for three weeks , kept a record for Ukraine-35!And yet, I've already seen dozens of nymphs and imagos of common and flower mantises this summer!

Good evening. Here I get along on the Internet, looking for news about praying mantises. I spend the whole summer at the dacha looking at mantises, but I don't think we have any, I haven't met them before, and it's a hot summer, I spend the whole summer watching one, so pretty. Kharkiv region, Liptsy. At us this summer 42 ordinary temperature

Worried as it will winter, the poor fellow, but where to attach it, vegetable gardens in the winter clean and ram... My soul ached, but I read about his habits, and ..... oh, the horror

... such passions about copulating with tearing off the head of a male and cannibalism

I wonder if mantises eat Colorado potato beetles? Here it would be useful if it were both delicious for him and pleasant for us

29.09.2010 0:51, Нежданный Гость

Good evening. Here I get along on the Internet, looking for news about praying mantises. I spend the whole summer at the dacha looking at mantises, but I don't think we have any, I haven't met them before, and it's a hot summer, I spend the whole summer watching one, so pretty. Kharkiv region, Liptsy. At us this summer 42 ordinary temperature Worried as it will winter, the poor fellow, but where to attach it, vegetable gardens in the winter clean and ram... My soul ached, but I read about his habits, and ..... oh, the horror ... such passions about copulating with tearing off the head of a male and cannibalism I wonder if mantises eat Colorado potato beetles? Here it would be useful if it were both delicious for him and pleasant for us

Here is his image, on a pumpkin leaf, and he liked to live on asparagus beans

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04.08.2011 13:29, Dracus

MAX67,DiZZell,

thank you for writing on the forum. The point in Kirzhach is new, but not the northernmost (last year we caught fish in the Kostroma region-see above in the same topic). In Moscow and the region, the praying mantis met last year. For more information, see the article by L. V. Bolshakov, E. O. Shcherbakov, S. G. Mazurov, S. K. Alekseev, S. A. Ryabov, and A. B. Ruchin. 2010. The northernmost finds of the common mantis Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mantodea: Mantidae) in European Russia (in Eversmannia 23-24).

Regarding the cold weather, the common praying mantis can reliably tolerate winters with short-term drops to -31 degrees. What is the reason for the rapid dispersal in recent years (and throughout the entire range), is not yet very clear.

P.S. the photo shows a female

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04.08.2011 19:01, Коллекционер

this year, to my surprise, I found a lot of mantises, but due to a lack of containers I lost about 40 % of what I found, and now I have a problem with feeding, I used to go to the forest for locusts, and now it's raining for 3 days, I don't know what to feed, I'm afraid they will die, they have 4 days without food

the females have already mated accurately(because I was there), [one even got so fat that I was afraid that it would burst and put it in a jar from the aquarium and did not give it large food], and inaccurately 3, because yesterday I discovered how the female was finishing the male

and with one, I decided to conduct an experiment , the jar in which he sits around the edges was covered with purple candy wrappers, + I put it all in a purple bag as a result, the praying mantis changed its color from brown to cream-pink)

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04.10.2011 16:47, Penzyak

- oh, my God, they called again at the expense of the "poor frozen" pilgrim from some greenhouse near Penza... - What to do with it and what to feed it...
Honestly, I'm terribly tired of mantises and how everyone has been running around with them for the last two years. I realized that it was time to remove this species from the KK PO when I saw a female praying mantis crushed by a car at my entrance this summer... A sort of mummified green profile...
But by the way, the gray female "disabled" (she did not have a mustache and part of the front paw) that I posed wonderfully in the steppe in the summer (sometimes in a day I came across more than 20 copies. bogomolov). By the way, we managed to take a unique photo in nature as a female mating with a male-calmly eats it.
Well, than not STRANGERS-the size just let me down...

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