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Food and Feeding
Removing the crop from hand-fed feeder roaches
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<blockquote data-quote="PhilinYuma" data-source="post: 127403" data-attributes="member: 2509"><p>Fair enough. I wasn't trying to give you a rough time! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Actually, there is very little information on the dietary needs of mantids. The gut loading foods for crickets that you can get in pet stores, though, are primarily intended for crickets being fed to vertebrates and contain calcium and trace minerals, as well as vitamins that herps and frogs don't get in their regular captive diet.</p><p></p><p>At the moment, I can find no evidence that any kind of gut loading, from vitamins in crickets to honey in flies provides any demonstrable benefit for mantids, but I am always open to being convinced otherwise by a good argument and a little evidence!</p><p></p><p>That is not to say that pollen is not a valuable vegetable protein source used by many insect predators from bees to ladybirds to mantids, whether obtained directly from a plant, as is the case with the first two mentioned, or from eating pollen-dusted insects as in the case of mantids. I have wondered, though, why mantids don't eat the hind legs of bees, which contain the pollen pouches. They're probably not up to date on the latest literature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PhilinYuma, post: 127403, member: 2509"] Fair enough. I wasn't trying to give you a rough time! :D Actually, there is very little information on the dietary needs of mantids. The gut loading foods for crickets that you can get in pet stores, though, are primarily intended for crickets being fed to vertebrates and contain calcium and trace minerals, as well as vitamins that herps and frogs don't get in their regular captive diet. At the moment, I can find no evidence that any kind of gut loading, from vitamins in crickets to honey in flies provides any demonstrable benefit for mantids, but I am always open to being convinced otherwise by a good argument and a little evidence! That is not to say that pollen is not a valuable vegetable protein source used by many insect predators from bees to ladybirds to mantids, whether obtained directly from a plant, as is the case with the first two mentioned, or from eating pollen-dusted insects as in the case of mantids. I have wondered, though, why mantids don't eat the hind legs of bees, which contain the pollen pouches. They're probably not up to date on the latest literature. [/QUOTE]
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