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Food and Feeding
Mantis 'Survivor"?
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<blockquote data-quote="DeShawn" data-source="post: 902" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>Jesse is correct. I am going through that right now (ran out of fruit flies AND money! AHHHHH). Some of the mantids will snack on their siblings, but most of them will die. L1 nymphs seem a little reluctant to munch on another mantid. It usually happens when one of the nymphs goes for food that another nymph is eating.</p><p></p><p>I have found that mantids don't normally cannibalize because they are hungry, but rather because they eat any friggin thing that moves (within a reasonable size). In fact, I have noticed more cannibalism with the stronger well fed mantids than with "hungry" nymphs.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I usually keep mine together until L2 - L3 or so. That is when most of the weaker mantids have died off, and the larger ones start to eat each other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeShawn, post: 902, member: 5"] Jesse is correct. I am going through that right now (ran out of fruit flies AND money! AHHHHH). Some of the mantids will snack on their siblings, but most of them will die. L1 nymphs seem a little reluctant to munch on another mantid. It usually happens when one of the nymphs goes for food that another nymph is eating. I have found that mantids don't normally cannibalize because they are hungry, but rather because they eat any friggin thing that moves (within a reasonable size). In fact, I have noticed more cannibalism with the stronger well fed mantids than with "hungry" nymphs. Anyway, I usually keep mine together until L2 - L3 or so. That is when most of the weaker mantids have died off, and the larger ones start to eat each other. [/QUOTE]
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