gah no food! :(

[beckyl92]

i bought some crickets for my ghost mantids 2 weeks ago and they're all dead now even though i gave them food and water so i ordered mini meal worms. lots of them.. they either look at them and run away or pounce at it and miss and walk off. i really dunno what to do no money! i have like 3 crickets left to last me a few days until my parents are home.

 

[massaman]

just do what i do go outside and look for bugs and put more then enough that you find with the mantids to last them a day or so thats all i do and it works well with what i can find when i dont have anything on hand!

 

[beckyl92]

just do what i do go outside and look for bugs and put more then enough that you find with the mantids to last them a day or so thats all i do and it works well with what i can find when i dont have anything on hand!

im not at home at the moment :/ its a tiny tiny garden so i wouldn't know were to look for things. and ghost are extremely fussy..

 

[bassist]

Cut the worms in half and put the innards up to the ghost's mouths they will grab on to it and start eating themselves.

 

[beckyl92]

Cut the worms in half and put the innards up to the ghost's mouths they will grab on to it and start eating themselves.

haha its okay now

i text my brother and told him to order me some.

didn't think he would but i was wrong!

 

[revmdn]

I feel flies are the best when it comes to ghost. A member here put up directions to make a flying bug catcher, using a 2 liter bottle. Or wait till night and put on the porch light and start collecting away.

 

[hibiscusmile]

also get smaller crickets so they last longer!

 

[jameslongo]

This is what annoys me. <_< Becky, go outside of your tiny garden to a park or something with a net and look after your mantids! Though you are UK bound, I'm sure there are plenty of small bugs you can catch, especially since you're entering summer.

 

[massaman]

just walk around your house and look at the walls of your house and by the windows and look for any kind of bugs that is all i tend to do and i find many kinds of bugs from real small ones as big as a fruit fly to giant flies to large mayflies!

 

[OGIGA]

1. Feed them honey by just swiping it on their arm. They'll clean it off while eating it.

2. Feed them meat. I tried [raw] chicken before. Uhh, cut a small piece (size of an insect that the mantis would eat). Tie it to a piece of hair (I hope you can find long enough hair). Dangle it in front of the mantis so it looks like it's flying.

Those two are just temporary solutions. I don't recommend it long term.

 

[yeatzee]

Ha, I have used steak before in a pinch..... not surprisingly my S. Limbata's loved it!

But I fear that it would be impossible to try that with ghosts. I know mine wouldn't except it at least.

 

[Rick]

Mealworms are a poor choice for mantis food.

 

[massaman]

try spittle bugs

they are bugs that make like a spittle on plants that looks like spit of course and the bugs would be good for mantids as i tried this and it worked pretty darn good!