Recent content by csheafer

That's so awesome! Very creative!

There ya all go. All fixed. Non scientific joe blow observation study that is meaningless..... Except to teach my kids a few things about the mantis and what it eats. I will be much more careful in the future not to use the word "scientific" so my threads won't blow up with stuff that takes...

Heh heh.... Well... In that case so that I'm not misunderstood or making some wild claims... My kids and I are doing what some would consider a very non scientific study that won't prove anything really except that I'm a really strange dad that likes doing unusual but very cool stuff with his...

If your referring to the NON SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION STUDY....... This non scientific observation study will be after they have become adults. All the mantises will already be introduced to and be familiar with all the insects in this study. We will have at least 4 "feeding enclosures" so we...

We started a small meal worm farm this last week as part of our study on mantids. Soon we will be starting a cricket farm and a Dubue Roach farm.. We will also be constructing a harvest-able live fly trap out doors in the spring. The purpose for these four groups is to study them as part of...

OK, I'm convinced on the deli cups. With the molting such an issue I do think that the deli cups would have a better chance. Thanks ya all for your input.

Thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it. Since we home school, and my kids are all teenagers, I think we can handle doing a large hatch. We are thinking now that we need to keep a lot more then we were expecting but I really don't see it as a big issue. We will be doing fruit fly...

Wow! That is high! How many did you start with?

I have done a lot of research, and we have had a mantis we caught and hatched out the ootheca it made. We did not however raise up the nymphs. Since this is a home school project, they will be monitored closely. Can anyone tell me what kind of mortality rate I should expect? I know the first...

Chinese praying mantis.... at least I think that's what they will be. I have a place where there are dozens of ootheca and the most common seems to be the Chinese praying mantis. All of the ootheca are quite large. Im planing on hatching out 2 of them from different areas and getting males...

I am going to be hatching out some mantises and was planing on keeping them to 3rd instar (or whenever I can sex them) in small plastic viles 1 inch by 3 inches. From there they will move to deli cups, then to gal size pretzel containers. 1 each. Is the vile going to be big enough to keep them...

OK, so here is the deal. I'm a home school dad preparing a year long unit study. I have 5 children participating. I am wanted to end up with 5 females (one each for each of them) and 2 males. I already of selected 2 oothecae in the wild we will be taking this spring. I found a place where...

Greetings! I am in the process of a year long unit study on the Chinese praying mantis. I do have a fair amount of questions that I cant find answers for that I will post in the appropriate areas. We have had a mantis we rescued in the late fall that we kept until it died a few months later...