Love Bugs

[bossdog004]

I don't know the correct scientific name, but here in Florida it is love bug season. Are they safe for mantids to eat?

 

[Rick]

Go ahead and try it out. If the mantis won't or shouldn't eat it they will simply drop it.

 

[bossdog004]

Thanks for the quick reply, Rick.

 

[Rick]

Not a problem. It is likely mantids encounter these in the wild and they know what they can't eat. I find all kinds of things during the summer that I feed to mine. They eat all but a few.

 

[Mantis Keeper]

Let us know how love bugs work, I don't currently have any mantids to try them on, but I'm sure I speak for all of us who live in Florida when I say, it would be great ot finally have a use for those love bugs.

 

[rickyc666]

are these love bugs:

http://www.tonycolter.com/photos/potd/potd-20031016.jpg

we dont get hardly any decent bugs in the uk. most of them are tiny and drab colours compared to everywhere else in the world.

 

[jonpat83]

If you look on plants in flower suck as willow herb and thistle you will find many colourfull insects similar to that, all very popular to flower mimicing species