Precarious
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I've been supplementing the diet of my mantis nymphs with these. They really seem to like them and I've found I can collect the eggs and hatch them right in my mantis enclosures. They don't live more than a day or two after hatching because there are no plants for them to feed on, but that's long enough to make good use of them. I collect the nymphs off the plants when I can find them which is probably even more nutritious.
I find the eggs under the leaves of the squash vines in my garden, but you can find them on many types of plants.
Note that the nymphs are black and green when freshly hatched, then turn black and red shorty after.
Music by Precarious
Watch Heterochaeta occidentalis L3 eat a stink bug nymph here:
http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18505
I find the eggs under the leaves of the squash vines in my garden, but you can find them on many types of plants.
Note that the nymphs are black and green when freshly hatched, then turn black and red shorty after.
Music by Precarious
Watch Heterochaeta occidentalis L3 eat a stink bug nymph here:
http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18505
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