L5 ghost mantids won't eat

[SpaceWolf]

So recently 3 of my ghosts molted into L5, and now they all look quite flat so I figured they'd be pretty hungry. But none of them want to eat anything, they all just swipe their prey away from them, are they sick or is this behavior normal? I tried giving them honey, this works though but I can't really fill them up with it I guess
 

 

[Starving Always]

I think you'd need to wait a day or two so that they can relax and dry up. Then, you'll be able to feed them properly (-: its normal after a molt, for them to push their food away so don't worry. just keep this in mind 

 

[SpaceWolf]

okay thanks a lot  I'm just worrying that they will starve since they aren't that great hunters themselves and that they look pretty thin

 

[MantisGalore]

This is normal behavior for freshly molted mantids. Did they begin to eat?

 

[SpaceWolf]

yup, I started feeding them banana pieces on a stick and they loved that. it's actually easier if u just take some banana that's quite liquid and just hang it on their hands, they will eat it aswell and u don't have to sit there 20 minutes xd

so now one of them just ate a big fat blue bottle fly so I'm confident they'll survive

 

[Starving Always]

yayy!! 

 

[SpaceWolf]

well it seems the male mantis is really the superior hunter in my cage  he just ate his 3d blue bottlefly and the females only caught some fruitflies