the bigger the feeder bug, the bigger the mantis gets?

[agent A]

Well my creobroter female ate a fly her size, but dropped the last of it because she was full.

 

[massaman]

does giving a mantis bigger prey also help make bigger and better ooths?

 

[Katnapper]

I would think the amount of consistent food would be a more influential factor in bigger, healthier ooths. I don't think actual prey size has anything to do with it.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Yeah, there tends to be a range in both mantid and ooth size from "normal minimum" to "normal maximum" with a few outliers (exceptions to the rule), and no amount of optimal feeding, humidity or music is going to affect that. However, mantids or most any animal that obtains maximum food at minimal effort consistently is, everything else being equal, going to tend toward the larger size of the norm.