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Is wild catching avoided in the mantid hobby?
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<blockquote data-quote="agent A" data-source="post: 347056" data-attributes="member: 2948"><p>I could rant for hours about people's poor care of their mantises, ESPECIALLY in the realm of improper feeding techniques</p><p>we in the first world are spoiled and we tend to overfeed ourselves and our pets. not to mention we give our animals very limited diet breadth and don't often bother to gutload feeders, and some people like to blame ANY issue with keeping their mantises going on inbreeding...</p><p></p><p>anyway, I am a bit concerned that you're finding nymphs THAT young in September. There are some key differences between the chinese and carolina mantises (BTW there's nowhere on earth where these are the ONLY 2 species existing in an area)</p><p>the chinese mantis has a very flattened head and some stripes on its face going up and down, while the carolina has these really bulgy round eyes and a shallower face area. chinese mantids also get very very large (close to 5 inches) while carolinas stay around 2.5 inches.</p><p>I wouldn't use size to determine sex, especially with immatures. the size difference could mean they are different species</p><p>the other concerning thing is that if they are indeed just in the 3rd or 4th instar, they may be infected with something parasitic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agent A, post: 347056, member: 2948"] I could rant for hours about people's poor care of their mantises, ESPECIALLY in the realm of improper feeding techniques we in the first world are spoiled and we tend to overfeed ourselves and our pets. not to mention we give our animals very limited diet breadth and don't often bother to gutload feeders, and some people like to blame ANY issue with keeping their mantises going on inbreeding... anyway, I am a bit concerned that you're finding nymphs THAT young in September. There are some key differences between the chinese and carolina mantises (BTW there's nowhere on earth where these are the ONLY 2 species existing in an area) the chinese mantis has a very flattened head and some stripes on its face going up and down, while the carolina has these really bulgy round eyes and a shallower face area. chinese mantids also get very very large (close to 5 inches) while carolinas stay around 2.5 inches. I wouldn't use size to determine sex, especially with immatures. the size difference could mean they are different species the other concerning thing is that if they are indeed just in the 3rd or 4th instar, they may be infected with something parasitic [/QUOTE]
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