Mantis gutloading

[Google the Chameleon]

hi
i was just wondering how would you gutload a praying mantis i am going to start breeding them in a weird way since i am getting my lawn redone and instead of using a pesticide treatment we are using mantids and i would just go outside and catch them, but anyway how would i gutload them

 

[camimom]

gut load the bugs you feed them. and fruits are good for them too.

mine loved banana.

 

[Google the Chameleon]

ok thanks for the info

 

[dlegare]

hi
i was just wondering how would you gutload a praying mantis i am going to start breeding them in a weird way since i am getting my lawn redone and instead of using a pesticide treatment we are using mantids and i would just go outside and catch them, but anyway how would i gutload them

I would suppose you could feed them gut loaded crickets.

 

[purplebiotch]

I think that you can just make a normal gutload. I'm planning to use them as my staple feeder. I dont think you have to feed them crickets and other insects though but you can.

 

[patrickfraser]

Mantids eat live prey. They may eat some banana or honey, but that has to be hand fed. You will need fruit flies at first and then graduate to larger items like BBs, crickets, and roaches as they grow. It's a lot to do for just a feeder. I raise a lot of mantids and my chams get a good few, but I wouldn't put all the effort into them just as a feeder. I enjoyed the mantid hobby for about a year and figured I had all the feeders (BBs, roaches, and also mantids) and decided chameleons would be easy to add to the food chain.

 

[maxttu]

and decided chameleons would be easy to add to the food chain.

Sorry, but you lost me here. Chams works be easy to add?

 

[patrickfraser]

Sorry, but you lost me here. Chams works be easy to add?

I hope you find your way back to reality. Lost in cyberspace? Don't make me break out my stillborn curse.

 

[maxttu]

No, seriously, I'm confused. What do you mean that chams would be easy to add to the food chain? Whose food chain?

 

[patrickfraser]

they are the next link up, no?

 

[maxttu]

Ahh, I see what you're saying. I was reading it as adding chams to the mantis food chain. As in mantis eats Cham.

 

[xxzmmorexx]

Thats a BIG mantis then hahahaha

 

[nick barta]

If you go to mantis place.com/mantidpets.com (same site) you will find the Blue Bottle flies you will need as the mantis hit L4 through adult. They also sell bee pollen to dust the mantis feeders with, which is worth doing.

Mantis are raised individually in 32 ounce insect cups, i think you will tire quickly in raising them. As far as hatching them in your yard, I hatched 10 ooths in my yard in 1 season (about 3,000 nymphs), and never did find one in my yard, you may not find success with that plan. Mother nature hatches about 300 nymphs in a Chinese ooth, because most don't survive...

 

[Bug Trader]

If you go to mantis place.com/mantidpets.com (same site) you will find the Blue Bottle flies you will need as the mantis hit L4 through adult. They also sell bee pollen to dust the mantis feeders with, which is worth doing.

Mantis are raised individually in 32 ounce insect cups, i think you will tire quickly in raising them. As far as hatching them in your yard, I hatched 10 ooths in my yard in 1 season (about 3,000 nymphs), and never did find one in my yard, you may not find success with that plan. Mother nature hatches about 300 nymphs in a Chinese ooth, because most don't survive...

If your raising a mantid to use as a feeder your likely talking about chinese or another native larger species. Those 32oz ff cups wont be near big enough. You will need a few screen cages or butterfly cages.

You can gutload the mantids through what they eat, Gut load the flies with honey and bee pollen though the mantids will need other food items such as roaches, moths, butterflies, superworms and silkworms. They are alot of work for just using as a feeder. Id suggest just buying the ooths and hatching them.