... is he just over stimulated by the idea of eating? what do you think??? Perhaps his pseudo pupils are out of alignment?my budwing is sitting a couple of inches from his prey, eyeing it intently... every so often he gets too excited and reaches for it at medium speed, one arm and then the other, then quivers a bit and sits still again (still an inch or two away, far out of his reach)
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he has molted six times i think
maybe but he seems very interested and molted less than a week ago
how do i tell? gasping in the abdomen or something? :huh:
he's taken such prey in the past few daysIs the prey large enough that the mantis may be worried or scared of the prey
my girlfriend finally convinced him!Maybe the mantis has gone vegan, no cheese please
Twice in a week? Not calling you a liar but find that a bit hard to believe.well.... he just molted again (twice in about a week!). and has now taken a large cricket! good boy.
It was 8 or 9 days. Kinda crazy, I found it odd myself, could this be an indication of a bizarre problem? :huh:
I just realized it's a female after thinking I had IDed it as a male a while ago! LOL. But no, she lives in a cage alone. <_<Do you have another Budwing you might have gotten it mixed up with? I did this once.
lol, no prob. I think you confused them when you said a week. They thought twice in exactly seven days, not a little above. My mantids started molting on the same day the next week. Which made it alot easier for me (in terms of feeding them crix).thanks for the input, thought i was going crazy from everyones responses!
