Mantid ID???

[Ace]

Hey everyone,

When school was over for me, and i walked out of my school using the school cement hill parkway, all the students go up like a stampede But as i was going up , i saw on the floor a MAntid..So i quickly picked it up , and saved it from a "shoe and a hardplace" ....i know lame joke.....and brought it home.....

Just want to know what specie of mantid it is??? and also i think its a female by the large adominal area.....i fed the previous mantid to my cham(if seen very old post) and liked it....so im saving this one ,(keeping as a pet for now) and wait till my cham is big enough to eat it...so i guess i am only prolonging its death

 

[vegas shooby]

Lol...looks good if I was chameleon..

 

[chameleonfan101]

mmmmm

it looks very juicy!!! u should find another one and breed them

 

[Ace]

LOL... IF i find one...and wat are the chances of it being the same species?

 

[Monties1982]

I think that is a Chinese mantis, and from the looks of it, is a female close to laying an egg case.

 

[Ace]

I think that is a Chinese mantis, and from the looks of it, is a female close to laying an egg case.

really? i thought they were green, while this one is whitish /yellow? i hope she does lay an "oothe" is that what they callit ??

 

[vegas shooby]

That is sick...u might be lucky ace...u think It would last that long to see your chameleon tummy...

 

[Monties1982]

After further searching, I believe it is a California mantis (Stagmomantis californica). The color fits a lot better with the pictures I could find of it. I can almost guarentee it's carrying an ootheca. It's abdomen is quite swollen.

 

[Ace]

awsome wat should ifeed the babies (if it happens)...and will the female surivive ??

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I have a male! for her. I also have a female, and her scenting is working. She attracted a male to my garage door tonight. Love is in the air as fall approaches.

 

[Ace]

i guess so

but mine is presumed to be already knocked -up

 

[Monties1982]

You can feed the babies fruit flies. I don't know specifically about the California mantis, but most mantis species don't live more than a year. She might live a couple months after laying, though. I've caught European mantises before that layed their oothecea in late september and didn't die until december.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

i guess so

but mine is presumed to be already knocked -up

Hopefully! Could just lay a infertile ooth. My girl is big to. I mated her a few weeks back when she was about to pop. She ended up laying five days after mating.

 

[Ace]

interesting...cuz i might feed the female to my ccham after she lays...i am feeding her gutloaded crix 4 now..she ate one recently...

 

[Ace]

Hopefully! Could just lay a infertile ooth. My girl is big to. I mated her a few weeks back when she was about to pop. She ended up laying five days after mating.

dang it..i forgot that they might have infertile oothes

does that mean will she survive to mate again...cuz i might like to "borrow" your male

 

[Ricardo]

Never seen a matis laying an infertile ootheca!

But if u want its better to give it a second (maybe first) try with that male! If she mated before, nothing will happen just she gonna eat the male so if you try to mate the mantids, feed the female before it. Good tip: give her a big cricket after he ate the first, and then - while she is eating - introduce the male.

Other thing if you want to raise little mantids: the females can lay a second fretile ootheca!!!! not just one, without a second mating. So give her some more weeks and feed her, so she can lay another ootheca.

For the id, im sure its a Stagmomantis species, and if u caught it in California at the garden its pretty sure to be a Stagmomantis californica.

The hatchlings are like to eat fruitflyes, the can eat 1-4 a day. Also pretty easy to breed the flyes, lots of info can be found on the internet about it.
If the mantis female is about 2-2.5 inches, i guess she wont lay so big ootheca, so you can calculate with about 50-70 hatchlings/ootheca. Please send a picture if the ootheca is layed! havent bred this spec. (just some others) but im curious about the details

 

[SSimsswiSS]

It's Stagmomantis Limbata, not Californica.

Here's a mating video I came across today of the mantis found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYCMNCUIYJU

 

[Texas Panther Man]

Steve your the mantid guy. You always have the cool bugs to play with...

 

[Monties1982]

It's Stagmomantis Limbata, not Californica.

Here's a mating video I came across today of the mantis found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYCMNCUIYJU

How can you tell it is limbata instead of californica? From what I could find, they are difficult to tell apart without looking at the wings, which you cant see in the pictures. It does look like one of the two, though. If he could get a picture of the wings stretched out, we could know for sure.

 

[STRYDER]

that male looks small though, if that female gets hold of it she will eat it while they try and mate, if im not mistaken most mantis species do while mating or after or something like that lols.