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Dermestes larvae are good food for lizards or assassins but they might be dangerous for a mantis if not eaten right away.

Maybe an old caddisfly house

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The problem is it's hard to pick out fruit fly pupae and I don't think you can get them to hibernate as pupae so they're shelf life is a week.

Ghosts, they're just not rare so people don't always appreciate them. 

If you have an adult male mombo available let me know your demands. Thanks

Does your interest stem from the many ant mimic mantis hatchlings?

There always seem to be someone trying to blame mantids or enthusiasts through political posturing rather than science. If anyone has read the 80s study and follow-ups meant to prove mantodean limits in pest control they would know it was severely flawed and later debunked by its own author...

Welcome! Metal mesh can mess up their tarsi when they are larger.

Thanks! You might keep house crickets or maybe Blatta orientalis in covered outside bins, but even the temperate earthworms don't continue to produce when it's very cold. 

I think earthworms would provide adequate nutrition and you could get some mantids at certain stages to feed on them but feeding them to most mantids and most instars would present challenges that all but ensure failure.

Great example. We have a number of "giant" inverts like Dynastes and Megaphasma, but M. giganteus is the only species we have I can think of that actually may be the biggest of its kind in the world.

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Waxworms supposedly have almost no nutritional value and if they had black spots it very well may have been bacteria.

I feed them to a lizard or a tank of orange heads so they don't have to suffer a slow, painful decline. 

I used to catch them in the field across the street and kept them as pets. In my teens I saw some amazing dead specimens from Peru and elsewhere in an entomology collection at a local college. I tried to order them from reptile dealers for years but nobody ever came through. I think my first...

Puncturing a sac of fluid always seems to cause death but even if it had lived a while it never would have made a molt. Good luck with the others.

They look very neat and after that are blue for a while. I've been trying to get a different molt sequence but the last time I ran into a molt I snapped one pic and then forgot about it (I was on the way to work but could have gotten one or two more pics to make a great sequence).

Adult brine shrimp are as big or bigger than most L1 mantids, maybe you mean hatchling brine shrimp? I would bet this idea has not worked since brine shrimp have little ability to move without water.