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General Mantid Discussions
Just ordered my first Mantis and have some questions about handling and feeding.
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<blockquote data-quote="Predatorhousepet" data-source="post: 316578" data-attributes="member: 10650"><p>Those adult males can be tricky. I always keep the door of the room where I have my insects closed and the room free of a lot of clutter. I figured that would make it easy enough to find a large adult male mantis that decided he wanted to fly somewhere and usually that is true....but when I was moving my Hierodula membranacea male back to his cage after breeding him he promptly took flight off my hand across the room and under the bed. Theres nothing under the bed but it still took me 20 minutes to find him after crawling under there with a flashlight. He was hiding on the underside of the bedframe way in the back. You do everything you can to try to mantis proof a room and they still seem to find the one weakness you didn't think about. Maybe I need to get a bedskirt to prevent that from happening again.</p><p></p><p>[USER=10691]@Little Mantis[/USER] I have heard that females do have the ability to fly very short distances but generally don't...probably because of the sheer effort it would take to get themselves airborne. Males can easily take flight because they don't have near the amount of "baggage" weighing them down that females do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Predatorhousepet, post: 316578, member: 10650"] Those adult males can be tricky. I always keep the door of the room where I have my insects closed and the room free of a lot of clutter. I figured that would make it easy enough to find a large adult male mantis that decided he wanted to fly somewhere and usually that is true....but when I was moving my Hierodula membranacea male back to his cage after breeding him he promptly took flight off my hand across the room and under the bed. Theres nothing under the bed but it still took me 20 minutes to find him after crawling under there with a flashlight. He was hiding on the underside of the bedframe way in the back. You do everything you can to try to mantis proof a room and they still seem to find the one weakness you didn't think about. Maybe I need to get a bedskirt to prevent that from happening again. [USER=10691]@Little Mantis[/USER] I have heard that females do have the ability to fly very short distances but generally don't...probably because of the sheer effort it would take to get themselves airborne. Males can easily take flight because they don't have near the amount of "baggage" weighing them down that females do. [/QUOTE]
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General Mantid Discussions
Just ordered my first Mantis and have some questions about handling and feeding.
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