Praying mantis..

FishKid · 10-15-2002, 05:36 PM

yea i guess ill stick around for a while

a praying mantis was in my house so i relocated it to a "refugium"

well after a few hours i also noticed what appears to be an egg pouch, which i also put somewhere a bit safer. I havent been able to find a whole lot of info on the care of mantid eggs.

anyone know of links?

and yeah i have a feeling that im gonna hear "its illegal to catch praying mantids" but i read in several places online that law is just awives tale...

mark

hcp28 · 10-16-2002, 12:14 PM

well I think if you just sit there and wait they will hatch. I would put them in a large glass enclosure or make something quick out of plastic wrap because there will be litterally hundreds of those things crawling out if that really is a mantis sac. Baby mantis will eat anything xmall enough for them to fit in their little mouths. Aphids, small crickets, flies, each other... In the end you'll probably just have one really fat mantis

So I guess you don't have to worry about feeding it.

Henry

FishKid · 10-16-2002, 02:40 PM

lol

i dont think theyll hatch anytime soon, since they were just rescently laid, i read that the yhatch 2 to 3 weeks into the summer, would the warm temperature of my room mean that i can expect them in 2 to 3 weeks?

hcp28 · 10-17-2002, 01:26 AM

Hmmm... that's a good question. I think that if you kept them in a warm enclosure with good humidity and tried to match it to the temperatures you would normally find in your area during summer that would bring the eggs out of dormancy. I guess it would be just like getting bulbs to hatch early in a greenhouse. The eggs might need the dormancy period for proper development but I doubt it. Maybe they are like mosquito larve and just need the right conditions to hatch before they swarm around and start sucking your blood.
Don't ask me I'm a psych major... maybe there are some entemology minded people around this board who could chime in on this one.

Henry

FishKid · 10-17-2002, 02:20 PM

i know they come out and go through instar phases, so maybe they are just like misquito larva

10-15-2002, 05:36 PM	#1
FishKid Governor Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Holbrook, NewYork, USA Posts: 1,799	Praying mantis.. yea i guess ill stick around for a while a praying mantis was in my house so i relocated it to a "refugium" well after a few hours i also noticed what appears to be an egg pouch, which i also put somewhere a bit safer. I havent been able to find a whole lot of info on the care of mantid eggs. anyone know of links? and yeah i have a feeling that im gonna hear "its illegal to catch praying mantids" but i read in several places online that law is just awives tale... mark

10-16-2002, 12:14 PM	#2
hcp28 Evil Czar Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: New York, NY Posts: 1,001	well I think if you just sit there and wait they will hatch. I would put them in a large glass enclosure or make something quick out of plastic wrap because there will be litterally hundreds of those things crawling out if that really is a mantis sac. Baby mantis will eat anything xmall enough for them to fit in their little mouths. Aphids, small crickets, flies, each other... In the end you'll probably just have one really fat mantis So I guess you don't have to worry about feeding it. Henry __________________ Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die. -Mel Brooks

10-17-2002, 01:26 AM	#4
hcp28 Evil Czar Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: New York, NY Posts: 1,001	Hmmm... that's a good question. I think that if you kept them in a warm enclosure with good humidity and tried to match it to the temperatures you would normally find in your area during summer that would bring the eggs out of dormancy. I guess it would be just like getting bulbs to hatch early in a greenhouse. The eggs might need the dormancy period for proper development but I doubt it. Maybe they are like mosquito larve and just need the right conditions to hatch before they swarm around and start sucking your blood. Don't ask me I'm a psych major... maybe there are some entemology minded people around this board who could chime in on this one. Henry __________________ Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die. -Mel Brooks

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10-16-2002, 02:40 PM	#3
FishKid Governor Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Holbrook, NewYork, USA Posts: 1,799	lol i dont think theyll hatch anytime soon, since they were just rescently laid, i read that the yhatch 2 to 3 weeks into the summer, would the warm temperature of my room mean that i can expect them in 2 to 3 weeks?

10-17-2002, 02:20 PM	#5
FishKid Governor Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Holbrook, NewYork, USA Posts: 1,799	i know they come out and go through instar phases, so maybe they are just like misquito larva

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