tiny_sounds
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Would Idolo's eat wax worms as oppose to moths? Do they only eat flying insects? ALso, if you had a sexed pair, would they be ok, housed together?
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Don't even EVER feed Empusidae with waxworms! It's as bad as feeding crickets - usualy the abdomen of a mantis fed with waxworms gets really hard, and the mantis often dies.Would Idolo's eat wax worms as oppose to moths? Do they only eat flying insects? ALso, if you had a sexed pair, would they be ok, housed together?thanks
Cool. Point taken. How easy or difficult is it to breed blue bottles to feed them with. I've reared wax moths before.Don't even EVER feed Empusidae with waxworms! It's as bad as feeding crickets - usualy the abdomen of a mantis fed with waxworms gets really hard, and the mantis often dies.With adults it may often cause infertility.
Do what? <_< Do you have any proof of any food causing infertility in mantids?Don't even EVER feed Empusidae with waxworms! It's as bad as feeding crickets - usualy the abdomen of a mantis fed with waxworms gets really hard, and the mantis often dies.With adults it may often cause infertility.
Yeah, unfortunatelly with Empusids and some other mantids - breeders I'm in contact with, who fed P. wahlbergii with large waxmoths and their larvae were unable to get fertile ooths and with Gongylus there were casualties after feeding a couple of worms.Do what? <_< Do you have any proof of any food causing infertility in mantids?
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