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General Non-Mantis Discussion
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Hello from Los Angeles California! I’m new here!
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<blockquote data-quote="agent A" data-source="post: 347852" data-attributes="member: 2948"><p>Welcome! I'm Alex, and I'm in Colorado, but originally from Connecticut!</p><p>I've been raising mantises for a good 16 years now</p><p></p><p>you'll have to pardon my autistic bluntness, I don't mean anything wrong by it</p><p>that looks like a female <em>Stagmomantis limbata </em>judging by the shape of the wings and her size. It's the middle of November. Wild mantises in the US aren't going to be alive for much longer. The <em>Stagmomantis </em>aren't long-lived as adults anyways</p><p>at this stage, she won't be reviving. I'd just euthanize her in the freezer</p><p></p><p>I have <em>Creobroter apicalis </em>nymphs if you want to give those a try! I'd recommend not using mealworms as a prey item, or at least not as a regular food item, as the protein:fat ratio of the larval stage of a holometabolous insect isn't ideal for mantises, who prey mainly on adult flying insects or the nymphs of crawling prey. They'd never encounter tenebrionid larvae in the wild</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agent A, post: 347852, member: 2948"] Welcome! I'm Alex, and I'm in Colorado, but originally from Connecticut! I've been raising mantises for a good 16 years now you'll have to pardon my autistic bluntness, I don't mean anything wrong by it that looks like a female [I]Stagmomantis limbata [/I]judging by the shape of the wings and her size. It's the middle of November. Wild mantises in the US aren't going to be alive for much longer. The [I]Stagmomantis [/I]aren't long-lived as adults anyways at this stage, she won't be reviving. I'd just euthanize her in the freezer I have [I]Creobroter apicalis [/I]nymphs if you want to give those a try! I'd recommend not using mealworms as a prey item, or at least not as a regular food item, as the protein:fat ratio of the larval stage of a holometabolous insect isn't ideal for mantises, who prey mainly on adult flying insects or the nymphs of crawling prey. They'd never encounter tenebrionid larvae in the wild [/QUOTE]
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General Non-Mantis Discussion
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Hello from Los Angeles California! I’m new here!
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