Sauromayne
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Hello,
I just ordered my first Mantis (Giant Golden Hierodula) and just have a few general questions.
First of all, do mantids like to he handled? Like should I go out of my way to hold my mantis because they enjoy it or do they not care for it? I've seen a few videos where the mantis is feeling threatened by their owner and attacking their finger and am curious what I should do if I'm in this situation. How can I convince my mantis that I'm not a threat and not trying to hurt it?
In regards to feeding, I'm just curious how you get the feeder insect from point A to point B. I have never had a pet that required live feed before so never had to deal with feeder insects. Do I just stick my hand in the culture and grab a fruit fly (I don't know how small these things are as I've never seen them lol), do I need tweasers, do I just dump them, etc?
I know these are probably silly questions but I'm very inexperienced with this and want to make sure I'm doing things right.
Thank you!
Edit: the fruit fly's that I ordered are the wingless ones that bugsincyberspace.com has.
I just ordered my first Mantis (Giant Golden Hierodula) and just have a few general questions.
First of all, do mantids like to he handled? Like should I go out of my way to hold my mantis because they enjoy it or do they not care for it? I've seen a few videos where the mantis is feeling threatened by their owner and attacking their finger and am curious what I should do if I'm in this situation. How can I convince my mantis that I'm not a threat and not trying to hurt it?
In regards to feeding, I'm just curious how you get the feeder insect from point A to point B. I have never had a pet that required live feed before so never had to deal with feeder insects. Do I just stick my hand in the culture and grab a fruit fly (I don't know how small these things are as I've never seen them lol), do I need tweasers, do I just dump them, etc?
I know these are probably silly questions but I'm very inexperienced with this and want to make sure I'm doing things right.
Thank you!
Edit: the fruit fly's that I ordered are the wingless ones that bugsincyberspace.com has.
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