How Many Mantids Have You Had?

[Paradoxica]

Indian Flower

Ghost

Idolomantis

Giant Asian

Giant shield

Taumantis

Cryptic

S. Limbata

Hetreochaeta Orientalis

Texas Unicorn

Miomantis Binotata

 

[patrickfraser]

I would have rather you kept the ones up, at least you know you had those, doesn't matter if you forgot some. Honestly I'd rather get better replies than 'too many'. Lol.

Sorry. Currently keeping a couple hundred, probably more. All alive at this present time.

 

[petoly]

Phyllocrania Paradoxa, Blepharopsis mendica, sybilla pretiosa, hymenopus coronatus, idolomantis diabolica, popa spurca, metallyticus splendidus (barely), metallyticus violaceus, pseudocreobotra wahlbergii, hypsocorypha gracillis, tenodera sinensis, Stagmomantis californica, s. limbata, s. carolinia, multispina, deroplatys lobata, deroplatys dessicata. I got some parymenopus davisonii coming in the mail,and a double shield mantis ooth. I'm pretty sure that's it.

 

[MandellaMandy123]

Countless is a lot, lol. Oh you only had three different types, though? Interesting. I'm sure you know about those particular genera, then. I'm pretty much just a pro at Stagmomantis Limbata, right now, lol. I can't wait to get my own ghost mantids, those are very interesting in appearance. Wow, since 5? That's freakin' long, lol! I only started this year. I've never seen one in the wild, before, myself. So I buy mine online. 500 is an awesome amount! That's sad that your Tenodera Sinensis got eaten by ants. Ants these days, huh? Lol. And good idea about the hanging so they're safe from the ants.

You currently own 12? Dang! How are you able to take care of them all? Lol.

Yeah, I probably know everything there is to know about those three species - and nothing about any other species. Next year I'm getting T. Sinensis and T. Angustipennis.

You wonder how I can take care of 12? I wonder how Rebecca can take care of 100000000000000000!

 

[garin33]

Currently have:

7 T. Sinensis

6 S. Lineola

3 Ghosts

2 Creos

ooths of T. Sinensis and Creos and hoping for ooths from the ghosts and Lineola.

I don't know how the others who have hundreds take care of them all. That is amazing to me.

 

[Domanating]

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.................and 1 Iris Oratoria

If i exclude the almost 200 hundred nymphs that hatched last June then i have/had still countless of them for the last 14/13 years.

 

[hibiscusmile]

I call BS, but still this topic was just asking for it.

what is BS?

 

[hibiscusmile]

yea, I am glad in a way I never got into counting them, I would not have any hair left on me head if I did! :tt2:

 

[MandellaMandy123]

what is BS?

Possibly the username Brancsikia339? I have no idea...So far this year I've probably had about 75 different mantids

 

[patrickfraser]

what is BS?

Bull ! :lol:

 

[gripen]

Bull ! :lol:

No no no I am pretty sure it means bologna sandwich

 

[aNisip]

No no no I am pretty sure it means bologna sandwich

It doesn't!? .... ^-^

 

[Ntsees]

If you were referring to "number of mantids", then does the number of instars hatching from an ooth count? If they do count, then my answer would be the same as some of the posts above where I would have too many to count. If you were referring to "number of species", I've kept 4 species so far: (from most experience to least experience) Mediterranean mantid, European mantid, bordered (limbata) mantid, and Chinese mantid. If you were referring to how many mantids I've kept from hatching that made it to adulthood, I'd say about 6-7 or less per year for the last 15 years.

 

[JoeCapricorn]

I've kept and cared for thirteen different species of mantis.

Right now in my possession I have an elderly (14mo) Rhombodera stalii female named Vex. I also have four adult female Chinese mantises. One I'm likely keeping and the other three were brought in because there will be frost tonight. I just felt like having extra mouths to eat all of these mealworms I have anyway :3

I also just got four Texas Unicorns and five Ghost Mantises.

I'm going to try and remember as much of my mantis hobby as I can.

Backtrack to 2009 - this is when it all started, that summer I got a new phone and it took great pictures of bugs. Then I brought in Chinese mantises from outside and let them hang out. I noticed how calm and tame they were, even with my fingers typing and all. I also found a European mantis at college and kept her, naming her Peridot. I had a Chinese mantis named Emerald. Later months I found some old females out in the wild - as late as November. I had one named Amber and Topaz. That November I ordered my first nymphs. Their names were Fortune, Meek, Kit and Angel. They were Hierodula membrenacea. January I ordered four more of the same species. I think in Spring of that year there was a hatching of a Chinese mantis' egg case on the floor of my room. Gathered as many as I could up and sent them off to Peter, I think I kept 7. So running total so far: 19

In April I got an adult female Ghost mantis named Chloe and later a subadult male named Casper.

In May, 2010 I got 3 Hierodula multispina and 2 Budwing.

April is also when I first got Spiny Flower mantises, Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii. I got four of them, but three of that bunch died. I think I got three more and those survived. Then they grew old and I only had a male left. I got an adult female, but she didn't last too long. So in all, I had 8 of this species. Running count: 34

Add one to that, when I got an adult Stagmomantis floridiensis female. Lovely creature! Running count: 35

The Dead Leaf mantises came in around May. So, three more to that. Running count: 38 - from this group was Astrid, Gnarles and Leatherhead. They all made it to adulthood fine and this was the first successful breeding. Unfortunately, that also meant Leatherhead had to be renamed to just "leather" :\ - Astrid had her egg case hatch and because it was in the middle of winter I sent them all at once as a trade. I kept 15 of the Dead Leaf mantises, but five died after their first molt. They still count, they were still precious, since one of the ones that didn't make it is in a beautiful photo of a just hatched baby mantis sitting on the back of her mother. The other ten all reached adulthood, though a couple had final molt issues. Gnarles was also my longest lived mantis ever at 18 months. Running count: 50

So I sent away an uncountable number of mantises to Peter Clausen and what was sent back was the feeling of relief that these baby mantises would be taken care of. Also, an adult Twig mantis and sub-adult Violin. I wanted to see how these species were. The Violin was beautiful, but really hard to get to feed and she barely survived her molt. If I wasn't there... she wouldn't have made it to adult. The twig mantis was very timid, but sweet in the long run and she stuck around for almost the whole year of 2011. Running count: 52

It was November of 2010 that I started the species Rhombodera stalii. At the time, it was unknown what species it was (iirc). I got four of them. One was named Henry and the other Jethro. In the summer of 2011 came the next succesful breeding I did - this time Jethro was able to fly away. He lived so long that he got to see his offspring, but unfortunately I didn't get a picture because I was afraid there might have been an infection with Jethro and had to quarantine him. The babies were born just around the start of August and this was my first time I sold mantises on this here forum! I kept 10 of this stock. So, the total is now at 62. From that hatching in August, one remains. Her name is Vex and she is a geezer, my oldest mantis I have. Her brother Astrid was the longest lived male mantis I ever had - he got to see the start of October before passing away. Aela, another female Shield has a very special story about her - she got to meet Bam Margera and I have photographic proof! But she came down with an infection about a month later and passed away. Around 2011 I found a small female European mantis and brought her in. I informally named her Peridot II because of her resemblance to the European mantis I had two years prior. I believe I brought in a couple Chinese mantises this year as well. Total = 65

There are four Chinese mantises in my care right now. Three of them I brought in to protect from tonight's frosty temperatures. The fourth is one I'm likely keeping. I'll count all four of them because at this point it is unknown if I am going to keep any or release them later. Finally, early today I received a special package from Peter. Inside were four lovable Texas Unicorns and five tiny adorable Ghost mantises. I never kept the Texas Unicorn species and I never raised Ghosts from nymphhood before. So the final total of the number of mantises I kept and cared for as a pet is 78.

 

[MantidLord]

Different species owned (Regardless of whether they were bred or whatever). Some of these I've had a lot more than others and a few I've been dealing with my whole life. So despite the short list, please don't consider me some sort of novice. I just don't have time or space to deal with the exotics (the one exotic listed was a gift).

Mantis religiosa

Iris oratoria

Tenodera sinensis

Stagmomantis limbata

Stagmomantis californica

Stagmomantis carolina

Litaneutria minor

Litaneutria obscura

Thesprotia graminis

Statilia sp.

 

[angelofdeathzz]

44,101 to be exact!

 

[hopefoot]

One!

 

[hopefoot]

And now I call bologna sandwich on angelofdeathzz.

 

[angelofdeathzz]

I double checked and you are right, it's more like 44,103

 

[Krissim Klaw]

I'm guessing way less than most people on this board despite keeping them regularly for 10 plus years now. People could easily surpass my number of individuals in one hatching since I only keep a handful at a time. I like to interact with my crew on a individual pet level rather than raise up a bunch at a time and have to spend most of my time on the more menial cage cleaning type of care requirements.