Mantis alone for Two weeks (with misting)

[Mantanis]

Hi i‘m going to australia for two weeks in December
My neighbor will be misting every three days i have gone through the process with her but she is too afraid to feed the mantis live or even dead prey so im kind of worried about TWO Weeks without food for him
Is there anything i could do?

 

[tracy_omar]

I’m no expert, but I had the same problem last fall. I bought green fly pupae and put a few in the enclosure to “hatch” and put the rest in the fridge. My petsitter then dropped a few pupae in the enclosure every third day. She didn’t mind handling the pupae and everyone did fine for 2 weeks.

 

[Mantanis]

I’m no expert, but I had the same problem last fall. I bought green fly pupae and put a few in the enclosure to “hatch” and put the rest in the fridge. My petsitter then dropped a few pupae in the enclosure every third day. She didn’t mind handling the pupae and everyone did fine for 2 weeks.

Thank you for that information i will be sure to ask her if she can do that