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Just ordered my first Mantis and have some questions about handling and feeding.
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<blockquote data-quote="Sauromayne" data-source="post: 316137" data-attributes="member: 10345"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I just ordered my first Mantis (Giant Golden Hierodula) and just have a few general questions.</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>I know these are probably silly questions but I'm very inexperienced with this and want to make sure I'm doing things right.</p><p></p><p>Thank you! </p><p></p><p>Edit: the fruit fly's that I ordered are the wingless ones that bugsincyberspace.com has.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sauromayne, post: 316137, member: 10345"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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Just ordered my first Mantis and have some questions about handling and feeding.
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