My Praying Mantis

[Morpheus uk]

That bee sharing photo is incredible!

It does sometimes happen, just when they both grab it at the same time i suppose. How have you tried to mate them so far?

What enclosures where the male and females in?

 

[collinchang635]

Wow! :lol: Never seen a mantid share food! :lol:

 

[yeatzee]

Well i put one female in the males cage with only two males in it cause the rest r gone, and i woke up with 1 male mantid head on the ground under the female so i took her out and now im hoping the male mated her while being eaten....but once again pink eyes is alive and well

 

[The_Asa]

Wow that's incredible :blink:

 

[yeatzee]

cool huh, now if i only had my dslr at the time <_<

 

[yeatzee]

Great news, I was getting desperate after losing 3 males in the course of a week so I decided to say my goodbyes to my favorite mantid ole pink eyes and let him out in my room with my huge female (the one that ate the two lizards) and after 1 failed attempt at eating him pink eyes was able to sweep the female of her feat and now they are mating!!!! Man im so excited i've never tryed breading before. Seems to me pink eyes is the perfect mantid, aggressive when he needs to be, gentle when handled, good with woman, and has pink eyes. What more could you ask for?

 

[The_Asa]

pink eye...I keep thinking of the sickness

 

[yeatzee]

Ha......well here some pics: Note he does have pink eyes you just can't tell cause of my sis' damn point and shoot





Now i was wondering how long he will stay on her for? The species is stagmomantis california i believe. Also how large of an oothica will she lay if it all works out?

 

[The_Asa]

Couple hours to a couple of days...you never really know :lol:

 

[collinchang635]

Could be quite some time...

 

[yeatzee]

well I just woke up and checked on them. Yeh! He's still all good! He has stopped mating but he's still hanging on, should i seperate them and if so what is the best way. Thanks!

Also when will she lay the ooth? How long will it take to hatch? thanks agin guys you've all been very helpful

 

[yeatzee]

A little update for ya guys.......my female laid her ooth the other night and when I woke up 2 days ago i found my male dead (I seperated him from the female, and put him back in his cage). Im not reallysure why he died but what ever I'll soon have a bunch of little babies running around! But I just caught another really large female of the same species so I now have 3 large females and 1 nymph male with 1 claw arm useless so I don't think my other females will live to mate with male unless somehow I find another male. Just thought id tell ya guys how everything is doing....

I'll have more pics when I get my canon 40d and macro lens, so sorry for the ###### quality ones taken throughout this topic

 

[idolomantis]

###### everyone seems to get a canon SLR here...

and i'm still doing it with a crappy 2 megapixel piece of rust.

enough complaining.

very nice pics man

that bee sharing pic is abaolutely brilliant

 

[MantidLord]

Congratulations dude. The male possibly died due to old age or used all its energy mating. It's normal. About the sharing food topic, I've had two adult male M. religiosa feed on a moth together (took a picture, but its crappy) a year ago. It's not normal, but not all that rare. Basically one mantis will catch a bug, and another mantis will still be after that bug without realizing it's been captured. Hope you can find another male, and keep us updated. GOOD LUCK.

P.S.If she just layed an ooth a short while after mating, she could have all been mated. Just a thought, but it never hurts to remate them.

 

[yeatzee]

She laid the ooth like 2 or so days after being mated, and I'll def. keep you guys posted. im just trying to raise my subadult male before my females die or get to old lol.

Here's some pics of where im currently keeping my mantids.......once again terrible quality (getting enough money for a canon 40d and macro lens when your 14 and not spoiled is hard lol)



I know it all looks very bland but because it is a native species, and they dont like coming down from the top of their containers theres really no need to "pretty them up."

The middle cage is where i kept the 5 adult males together perfectly fine. The other 2 green ones are from petco, like 5 bucks only for the small one and like 8 for the large one. The tuperware looking things are where I keep my nymphs.

 

[idolomantis]

LOL i don't think money is a problem.. more the 400+ manual i have to read first XD.

good caging there

 

[yeatzee]

LOL i don't think money is a problem.. more the 400+ manual i have to read first XD.good gaging there

Ha, Im fairly familiar with the camra so I dont think im gonna read the whole thing lol

 

[yeatzee]

Another update.....Yeh! My nymph finally molted into a beatiful male stagmomantis. I'll post pictures after football practice

 

[idolomantis]

Congratz! looking forward on the pictures

 

[yeatzee]

I've got a bunch of stuff i got to do so I'll get the pics tommorow.....I was just wondering how long I have to wait until I can try mating my male with one of my females? i was guessing like 2 or so weeks but, im not really sure. Thanks