Spoon-fed Males...

[mantid_mike]

Why is that I have to use tweezers to get my male Lobata and male ghost to eat? If I don't coax them with bug juice dripping out the insect, they'll let the fly rotate around them all day w/out eating it. Is this common?

 

[frogparty]

In my experience it is

 

[patrickfraser]

They'll eat if they are hungry enough. I think they probably know more of what they need than anybody else. :lol:

 

[happy1892]

Mine never eat like that LOL!

 

[sueb4653]

my bigger ones will take grasshoppers or crickets from tongs

and lately I've tried silkworm which they also love