Gnawing on Stick

[sinensispsyched]

My young ghost was out for a feeding, and after he started eating the maggot, he started gnawing on the stick he was on. I believe that he was thirsty, although I have been spraying its enclosure once every day, and I have never seen it drink.

Any ideas, and, is this normal?

 

[agent A]

I'm thinking he was just thirsty

If he isn't vomiting he should be fine

 

[gripen]

+1

 

[sinensispsyched]

But I've been SOAKING its enclosure for the last week, and it hasn't drank a drop!

 

[gripen]

Some times mantids do weird things.

 

[patrickfraser]

Sometimes they're not the least bit discriminatory on what they chomp on. It may have thought it was food or possibly getting the "juice" from the maggot off the stick. yummy

 

[CoolMantid]

If he was eating the maggot of the branch maybe he didnt stop at the end of the maggot and continued on the stick. My ghost who died yesterday would eat a fly off a paper towel and continue on the paper towel after the fly.

 

[Psychobunny]

I agree with the other posts. Sometimes they can still taste the bug.

I learled that you should not feed a large adult mantis honey from your finger!! LOL

 

[Mvalenz]

But I've been SOAKING its enclosure for the last week, and it hasn't drank a drop!

When it looks like my mantid is not drinking i'll offer it a drop from the tip of a bamboo skewer. My Chinese would drink from a baby spoon. Sometimes I would have to place the drop on it's front claw and it will walk around with it there for a second before drinking it. The drops seem to stick right to it.

 

[meaganelise9]

Haha this happened to me the other day. My Polyspilota tried to catch a roach. Instead she grabbed some coco bark and didn't realize she was not eating the roach. Silly girl's getting funny in her old age. She got pretty sassy when I tried to push it out of her claws.

 

[Psychobunny]

Haha this happened to me the other day. My Polyspilota tried to catch a roach. Instead she grabbed some coco bark and didn't realize she was not eating the roach. Silly girl's getting funny in her old age. She got pretty sassy when I tried to push it out of her claws.

LOL!! sometimes they do get an attitude!!

I tried to get one of my adult blue flash females out of her cube for a few pictures and she would not have anything

to do with it!!

She raised such a fuss, threat pose, red mean mouth (the mantis equivalent of showing your fangs!!??), flapping her wings, etc.

I decided it best to just leave her alone!! LOL

Most of the time, she is very tame and like to climb around on me. Other times, she gets huffy when I just walk by her cube!!

 

[meaganelise9]

haha the open mouth is pretty scary..

 

[Fichte]

U spray every day at your Phyllocrania? I think thats pretty much.

if u want to get them dark its a way but its a bit dangerous that there grow some mold... and thats not good for such "dry" Mantids

 

[sinensispsyched]

Yeah, since then I've sprayed him/her once every two days, and he/she is fine.

 

[brancsikia339]

Some times mantids do weird things.

1+

I've seen my fair share of strange mantid behavior