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12.03.2009 15:57, Боря

Try to do this. Cut the fly lengthwise or crosswise so that the pectoral flying muscles show. Slightly crush them so that they protrude outwards and, taking a piece of chitin from the side with tweezers, dip it in water with your muscles down, then, lifting it, leave a small drop of water hanging on them. Slowly bring it to the empusa's head and make the drop stick to her mouth.
The point is that water, wetting her mouth, immediately conveys to the taste buds the taste and obvious edibility of the "meat broth" formed in the hanging drop, and eating can no longer come into play instincts of repelling an incomprehensible object, but eating. However, you will have to keep it until you are full.
If you can feed them in this way, please respond.

This post was edited by Boris - 12.03.2009 15: 58

14.03.2009 23:30, DmitryBurkow

This method will not work. Empuzas never drink water and do not like juicy food. As soon as he feels the water , he pulls away. Unlike other praying mantises, empusas do not eat what they get when washing, so they will not eat without hunting.

If she can't fold the "knife" at all , then it's bad, there are very few chances. If at least one paw joint has some kind of move-hold it without food for a while, so that it gets hungry, but does not waste energy.
Then take a bunch of fruit flies, rolled into a ball, pick up the wire and hold it to her so that the wire trembles. Such a drosophila ball clings very well even with one damaged paw, and then it's a matter of technique. You can try to crush a few fruit flies so that they stick to their paws.
The extreme method is to grab the back so that it starts to defend itself, and put food in your mouth-chewing will do it. But the jellyfish is very fidgety, it is almost impossible to hold it so that it does not scratch.

Regarding kozheeds: is it worth the risk? You never know what they ate there. Empuzas only need 2 types of food: drosophila and maggot flies. This is their native natural food, and all sorts of deviations except from hopelessness. Well, even small butterflies adults catch...

This post was edited by DmitryBurkow - 03/14/2009 23: 41

15.03.2009 20:42, Liparus

The larva develops to an adult in three to four months, depending on the temperature (the exception is the wintering empusa larva, which grows from September to May). Adult females also live for about three months, males for a month and a half.
I had such a case with an adult female H. transcaucasica, who ate until the membrane on the abdomen under the wings ruptured. A few drops of hemolymph flowed out, and then the wound closed. In larvae, and even more so in adult males, I have not observed this, they usually leave their prey uneaten.

Thank you for your explanations.)
I have one more question.Can you throw a male to a female to mate with him?Maybe it's good for her somehow,she'll live longer there...When I was 8 years old, I threw a green male to a yellow female and she mated with him and sort of ate him off her head.

26.08.2009 2:47, Enterprise

Hello! About 6 days ago I caught a praying mantis in Feodosia, after I saw that it ate our beetles, which were so annoying in the evening, I decided to take it with me. Now feeds on grasshoppers, ate a couple of caterpillars. I understand that if there are 6 lobes on the abdomen, then this is a female? I am afraid of the arrival of winter, no one knows, there are pet stores in Zelenograd that sell live food? I was in bagheera and another one, they don't sell live feed(when I came in, the mantis hadn't eaten for 2 days, it's good that they caught it later in the country). Or maybe there are some crickets in Moscow, etc.? And also, I would like to know in which container they actually sell these crickets or do you need your own? The fact that we have winter coming soon, the praying mantis doesn't care if the temperature is + 20 +25?
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