mountainmantids
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hello everyone i hail from northwestern Montana, and i love mantids! haha
while you don't tend to find any in the wild here locally i got my first mantid when i was in 3nd grade from my grandfather, who was a trucker and picked one up on his travels, and thats when the obsession began. i raised that one for about a month until it passed and ordered 2 tenodera sinensis ooth that we hatched in school, my teacher even let me teach a week of class on insects! we really didn't know what to expect tho and next thing you know it my classroom was infested with mantids haha.....ha lesson learned, betta fish bow replaced.
fast forward to today, 23 and I currently have 3 budwings in l3 stage and a b.mendica coming next week and I'm sure more impulse mantid buys in the future!
while you don't tend to find any in the wild here locally i got my first mantid when i was in 3nd grade from my grandfather, who was a trucker and picked one up on his travels, and thats when the obsession began. i raised that one for about a month until it passed and ordered 2 tenodera sinensis ooth that we hatched in school, my teacher even let me teach a week of class on insects! we really didn't know what to expect tho and next thing you know it my classroom was infested with mantids haha.....ha lesson learned, betta fish bow replaced.
fast forward to today, 23 and I currently have 3 budwings in l3 stage and a b.mendica coming next week and I'm sure more impulse mantid buys in the future!
