ok thanks for clearing that up buddie,,No, it's perfectly fine for a temporary meal. It's just that something too much of anything is bad. (Like if you feed them that their whole life, their ootheca may be very small, or malformed because of minutrition.) Also, the crickets have been known to fight back. About the mantis with three legs, I told you it might die. Not sure exactly of it's your fault. Too bad.
P.S.S. Read your topic a little better, and no, they can't die from eating the same thing over and over again...Just not as nutritious.
Yes, so did mine, not for a long time though. Just that variety is better, especially with ootheca laying females. Read somewhere that from eating only crickets, the ootheca didn't form properly or something. I guess it was missing some key nutrients found in pollinating insects.
They will vomit when they eat a bad crawling insect. Moths generally don't go 'bad' because they only feed on pollen, but crickets feed on garbage and other stuff so bacteria builds. They don't vomit unless they eat a bad insect that has loads of bacteria in the gut.
They do. Carrots have a natural enzyme that kills off bacteria and it probably disrupts some digestive bacteria in the mantid's gut.
