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Programmed stages/life expectancy of mantids
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<blockquote data-quote="PhilinYuma" data-source="post: 146333" data-attributes="member: 2509"><p>O.K., it's getting late and maybe I'm confused, but I don't think that I ever said that misting in itself is a source of stress. Certainly I never meant to, aside from squirting the little bugger so hard that it runs away or strikes a defensive pose. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that one of the major causes of stress among captive mantids is poor air circulation in 32 oz pots. Also, of course, mantis hobbyists who have spent more than a year in th hobby, learning husbandry, are probably a minority, and many forms of stress experienced by our charges are due to errors, like leaving too many crix in an enclosure, using poorly designed or inadequate enclosures, and trying exotic and sometimes bizarre foods, among many other things. Remember, if you have an ooth hatch and you succeed in raising enough mantids so that you have more than one successfully mating pair, then you are doing better than nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PhilinYuma, post: 146333, member: 2509"] O.K., it's getting late and maybe I'm confused, but I don't think that I ever said that misting in itself is a source of stress. Certainly I never meant to, aside from squirting the little bugger so hard that it runs away or strikes a defensive pose. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that one of the major causes of stress among captive mantids is poor air circulation in 32 oz pots. Also, of course, mantis hobbyists who have spent more than a year in th hobby, learning husbandry, are probably a minority, and many forms of stress experienced by our charges are due to errors, like leaving too many crix in an enclosure, using poorly designed or inadequate enclosures, and trying exotic and sometimes bizarre foods, among many other things. Remember, if you have an ooth hatch and you succeed in raising enough mantids so that you have more than one successfully mating pair, then you are doing better than nature. [/QUOTE]
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