Trained

[cdsnuts]

I finally got this guy to take meal worms out of tweezers!

 

[ScienceGirl]

Love those green eyes!!!

 

[hibiscusmile]

u the man!

 

[cdsnuts]

u the man!

I am the Mantis whisperer.....

 

[lancaster1313]

When they realize that mealworms are edible, you will just be able to drop them in. I like to use a shoebox size sterilite, put in the mantis, and drop the feeder in, if their home container allows crawlers to hide.

It is not too much work if you only have a few mantids. It gets really tedious when I am out of flying insects and have to feed mealworms to 20+ mantids. :mellow:

 

[cdsnuts]

I was just doing it for party tricks....when I tell people I have a trained praying mantis they can hardly believe it.....Typically he eats crickets and flies and anything else I can catch.

 

[Sticky]

I trained some of my older girls to drink milk from a baby spoon. People are always amazed!

 

[MandellaMandy123]

Really cute! I had a mantis once that I had trained to freeze and not move. I won second place at a pet competition with it!

 

[ScienceGirl]

Really cute! I had a mantis once that I had trained to freeze and not move. I won second place at a pet competition with it!

Mmmm.... Please tell us how you trained them to do that!