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20.07.2010 23:43, Enterprise

I fed my little praying mantises several times(the species is really different - woody), I didn't like that the ants themselves are dangerous and can bite the kids very much, they also have a fairly strong shell and you can say there is almost nothing there(when I ate ants, I constantly heard a crunch, as if something was hard eat). It's better just to catch flies, some small moths, especially good that you have two of them - I bought 13 at once, I read that the mortality rate is high, so no, almost everyone lived until they started stupidly eating each other. There are two worshippers left, now with their bellies puffed out. By the way, only 2 pieces are dangerous, as I already said, ants also have jaws and they are powerful. Although I don't know about the juveniles, maybe I'm wrong about the young part of the ants, maybe they are not dangerous.

21.07.2010 0:47, Гость.)

Okay, with the food I more or less figured out, I catch them everything flying that comes to light. Now the concept has changed. I have a male and a female. Terrarium 40x40x60, usually sat in different parts of the terrarium on branches. But in the last couple of days, they started to come into contact with each other, moving to each other on branches, I had to carefully separate them with tweezers. In general, I read that they (gongylus), like other empuzovs, are supposedly non-aggressive towards each other, but I don't want to risk it, because there is only one pair and the loss of any is unacceptable. I would not like to buy a second terrarium. I feed like normally, on a large butterfly a day + a few moths or flies.
This is my first time breeding mantises at home, and I would like to get a couple of tips from someone who has already dealt with this species, it would be a shame to lose such wonderful animals by their own stupidity.

22.07.2010 17:32, Enterprise

My praying mantises are not indifferent to each other, and there was also a problem with the terrarium - there was nowhere to just put the second one, I did so, maybe this is not entirely true in relation to competent content, but there was no choice, as they say. I made a frame the size of a terrarium, covered it with polyethylene and divided the terr into two parts, there is not much space, so every day I "walk" them, get them out, put them somewhere and they sit / crawl. I still have very little experience myself - the second time I only keep mantises and the first-two mantises at once, last year I caught an ordinary one, also a female, and she lived until the winter. Recently, by the way, I discovered that in a small terrarium where I keep food, namely I catch grasshoppers, a month and a half ago, when there were no grasshoppers yet, I bought crickets and they sat there for quite a long time. Now there are a lot of very small crickets in the shallow terre-apparently children:) There are at least 50 of them, and as I notice, they are increasing every day) I wish I had them when my praying mantises were small - I just gored them to breed fruit flies drosophila, very inconvenient, and so by the way, nothing happened, I wanted to make a colony, I prepared the substrate but nothing came out.

Although I don't know exactly about your problem, but I would separate them. I was afraid to wake up thinking, " what if I find the carcass of a dead praying mantis in Terra right now?"

25.07.2010 0:44, Enterprise

So they are full, wait a bit, they will eat. At me before ooteka to postpone the female did not eat. With molting, too, can be connected, although I remember that before the molt, there were no delays in my nutrition, like, we ate as usual.
One bogomolikha now something quite bad, I noticed long ago that she has one mustache of the other much shorter, because of this catches not very well, misses, and today something is completely passive, then looks down under her hands, then tries to crawl away somewhere, but can not-her legs give way under her, everything signs of old age, although it's still the end of July, what an old age! And on the pincer hands, some black dots appeared at the joints, which the other worshipper does not have. And what is strange is that they did not postpone any ooteka, although they did not meet males, it is still strange.

At one praying mantis at me still often the belly of a crack gives and yellow liquid begins to flow, it at them blood such?

This post was edited by Enterprise - 25.07.2010 12: 55

26.07.2010 21:18, Enterprise

Elion, the abdomen is not covered with cracks, it is torn due to the large mass and thin skin of the mantis, one mantis tore when climbing in the catacombs and got stuck with its belly in one piece, then got out but after I found yellow droplets and removed this thing. The second praying mantis today, when reaching for the victim, fell from a height of 30 cm and he also flowed yellow liquid from his belly, well, just like a cut and blood is coming, I did what I could, soaked pieces of paper, gave him something to eat and he sat at least for some time quietly. This yellow liquid is very thick, like a gel, and hardens slowly. Now this mantis wound has tightened, everything is fine, but I am very much afraid for both of them, only I will touch it carelessly here is no place, my belly is already torn and blood is coming. They would like to postpone the ooteka, even if they are empty and their bellies will greatly decrease, but something does not even give a hint of this.

27.07.2010 14:15, Enterprise

sturm14, wow... I have only met with the fact that a large grasshopper, while being planted in the terre, twisted and ate one of its jumping legs, which I was very surprised at, but what a praying mantis! A claw!... And the whiskers are assigned just the same key function, without a whisker, any insect, even with eyes, becomes (in my experience) almost blind, in the case of mantises-I have one mantis with one whisker half shorter than the other, it now has problems with attack - it often makes attacks in the wrong direction and the prey runs away. No wonder they direct their sawyers like sensors antennas in the right direction to understand what kind of object it is. And grasshoppers and it seems to me in general only on whiskers are guided.. But this is just my guess, because they also have eyes for something.
Or maybe he ate the front leg because of the lack of a mustache, as if he couldn't determine whether it was someone else's or his own, so he ate it. In general, I gave bumblebees, not big though, and successfully ate.

Tomorrow to go, and my father told me that it is dangerous to go on the train with mantises - they will get stuck on the stopudof border and get off the train. I decided to release it near the house in a small field near the forest - where I caught grasshoppers, there are a lot of them there, there will be no problems with food. I strongly regret that the offspring will not give.

This post was edited by Enterprise - 28.07.2010 23: 05

30.07.2010 15:09, Enterprise

I haven't seen any scientific papers, but I haven't really looked for them..

At the border, they didn't even look at the luggage, I let out my favorite ones in vain, I've been roaring for the second day(an adult!), I came to rest, but there is no rest anymore. Is there a chance that they will survive until the end of August? Hardly... They themselves who can hunt, birds, mice, snakes of some kind... My praying mantises are gone, and I released them myself. I hate myself, but even more than my father, who told me not to take them. I won't be able to keep anyone here anymore, I won't be able to stand it, and even now I can't even talk to anyone - I immediately remember how my favorite praying mantises could be around. That's it, I can't do it anymore..

26.08.2010 10:13, Enterprise

Hello, I caught a tree mantis in Feodosia and brought it with me. She put off her ooteka last night, and has been sitting around it ever since. Tell me, does this type of praying mantis have a female guarding the ooteka, or is it just resting?
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I was also alerted by the fact that yesterday there were 3 fillies in Terra, I caught them near the house. Today they were all killed, not eaten, but just their heads were twisted off by a praying mantis and thrown on the substrate. When caught, there was already a tummy, I think there is a possibility that the male has already met, how do I keep the ooteka that the praying mantis would not hatch in a few weeks(as the Internet writes)? There is nothing to feed, nowhere to keep such a large number of praying mantises.

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