Christmas Plans

[Curiosity]

Is there any chance my European mantises, which were born wild at a time I can't verify, could live until Christmas? One of my smaller dreams is to celebrate Christmas someday with a mantis that is still at least respirating. (I still have the bodies of last year's mantids, but they're not very good company.)

 

[MantisGirl13]

It depends on how old they are right now.

- MantisGirl13 

 

[Mystymantis]

I have had mantises alive at Christmas and way past that even. My Chinese mantises that hatch in the spring usually make it to Christmas and even past Christmas. If you have some female mantises there is a decent chance a few will make it to Christmas and beyond depending on when they hatched of course. Female mantises live longer then males.

 

[Curiosity]

I don't really know how old they are. . . I have one European who's almost an adult, one who's half her size (1 1/4 inch), and a couple of slightly-less-than-an-inch-long nymphs I think might be Carolinas. Most of them are female. How would that fit into the math?

 

[hysteresis]

Is there any chance my European mantises, which were born wild at a time I can't verify, could live until Christmas? One of my smaller dreams is to celebrate Christmas someday with a mantis that is still at least respirating. (I still have the bodies of last year's mantids, but they're not very good company.)

Females deffo. Males, naww.

 

[MantisGirl13]

Yup. Females should make it, males probably won't.

- MantisGirl13