Mantis feeding problem...

[Anleoflippy]

Ok here how it is...

I got 2 mantises...

A Chinese Mantis and a Giant Malaysian Mantis...

My Chinese Mantis is doing fine as you can see...

But the problem is My Giant Malaysian Mantis...

For some reason it doesn't like to eat insect or not comfortable with insects...

It only eats when I give him flesh or meat like Lizards...

As you can see here, My Mantis ate the head of the lizard, and then the whole body...

Its nothing serious really but it is nice to see My Mantis Eat different prey but I have many lizards crawling In My house...

So any Ideas???

 

[hibiscusmile]

SEND me some of them thare lizards and I will then give u my expert opinion! And if you can't do that, then I would say, you have spoiled your mantis B)

 

[ismart]

It would seem your mantis does not like lizards much either considering what is left of it. Why dont you wait a few days before you feed it again and drop in some flies or a grasshopper. If it's hungry enough it will eat them.

 

[The_Asa]

Yeah, as ismart said, if the mantis gets hungry enough it WILL eat eventually.

 

[Rick]

It will eat insects just like all other mantids.

 

[Anleoflippy]

I see...

Well thanks for your opinion guys and My Chinese Mantis is eating a dragonfly now...

EDIT:Great news guys, just now when I spray water on the floor, my Hierodula Trimaculata (Malaysian mantis) was drinking like crazy, then when I put a grasshopper in front of my Mantis, a blink of an eye the prey was already in the claws of the mantis...

 

[sk8erkho]

For some reason that brings to mind a youtube shot i saw a few years back but not of a mantid eating a lizard but a mouse!!!! Just the odd things those dudes can take on!

 

[nasty bugger]

Maybe he feels he's lacking some kind of nutrient that isn't in the insects. Try gut loading the insects then feed them to him and see if he goes for it then. I just wonder what nutrient lizard head has that the body doesn't Maybe it's the brains he's after, kinda like monkey brain being a delicacy. You must have a royal mantis there, a royal pain in the a$...

I know that when I'm lacking some nutrient, my body automatically craves something that has it.

 

[Rob Byatt]

........Hierodula Trimaculata (Malaysian mantis)

Who told you it was H. trimaculata ?