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Warning to Those with Flying Adult Mantises
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I didnt know she was on the curtain and neithet did my sisI was outside when my sis threw in the load <_<OK, I'm sure you do....Where were you when that was happening.....?
sinensispsyched
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Bones reference- Brennan: By the broken tarses, splattered abdomen, and total destruction, we can infer that she was crushed.
Hodgens: I found trace compositions of cotton on her, such as that used commercially in clothing.
Booth: So what, she went through the rinse cycle?
Brennan: Exactly....(cue dramatic music)
LATER...
Brennan: THE SISTER WAS THE KILLER! (sister runs away)
Booth: (3 gunshots heard) I got her!
Sorry for off topic, anyway, are there types of lights that are more harmful than others?
Crazy4mantis
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once my creo male tried to make a break for it out the window. lucky it was closed. :lol: but not fun getting him out of the blinds trailing dust and cobwebs.
Krissim Klaw
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If there is dust they will go to it. If I stick a microfiber skirt on the boys do you think I can sell them as self cleaning dusters?
glock34girl
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brancsikia339
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One time my male wahli decided he wanted to take off so he flies at housefly speed all over my cluttered basement and lands on a mirror. He was okay though. It happened multiple times with my parymenopus males and once with my hymenopus when i was distracted for a second
ScienceGirl
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Hope that he stays okay!!!
Flight is a beautiful thing, but indoors there are fans, lamps, and air vents to think about. Not to mention the occasional franatic crash landings. :donatello:
Flight is a beautiful thing, but indoors there are fans, lamps, and air vents to think about. Not to mention the occasional franatic crash landings. :donatello:
sinensispsyched
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Yes, but outside....
I once had a male religiosa fly off into the woods around my house, which is about 40-50 feet away. He then landed in a tree, 20 feet off the ground.
Krissim Klaw
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I figure at this point he is pretty safe. If he suffered damage from the heat I think I would have seen signs of it by now. As for the crash landings, I'm convinced the mantis version of landing is just to fly until you slam into something.
Aww that stinks. I once saw a little male of some sort of species on the corner of my house but before I could get to it with a net it flew off. U__UYes, but outside....
I once had a male religiosa fly off into the woods around my house, which is about 40-50 feet away. He then landed in a tree, 20 feet off the ground.
glock34girl
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I was actually just putting my parrot to sleep for the night and I started to wonder if its healthy for the mantis to free flight in the house. I mean I know we are discussing the horrors of what could happen but say there was a safe room for the mantis.... Is it something that should be done for the adults? Do they go stir crazy not flying? All my adults go into mesh cubes but they certainly don't fly in them.
lancaster1313
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I would follow the same rules as one does with a parrot, minus the clipping of wings.
Fans off, window blinds closed, no stoves on, cover mirrors, etc. I even worry about the a/c vents because I had a mantis land on one and he could have easily gone inside and been hard to retrieve.
Also, a parrot may not take kindly to the mantis if they come into contact.
I have definitely noticed that mantids make excellent dust collectors.
They always seem to find great hiding places. I wonder how they know that those places are hard for us to get to? :shifty: I have had some "fun" times trying to get mantids out of tight places with long thin objects. They just watch the stick coming and hunker down, not even budging when touched with it. l get worried that their feet will get damaged when they grip like that. Sometimes I even give up for a while to see if they feel like letting go at another time.
Fans off, window blinds closed, no stoves on, cover mirrors, etc. I even worry about the a/c vents because I had a mantis land on one and he could have easily gone inside and been hard to retrieve.
Also, a parrot may not take kindly to the mantis if they come into contact.
I have definitely noticed that mantids make excellent dust collectors.
They always seem to find great hiding places. I wonder how they know that those places are hard for us to get to? :shifty: I have had some "fun" times trying to get mantids out of tight places with long thin objects. They just watch the stick coming and hunker down, not even budging when touched with it. l get worried that their feet will get damaged when they grip like that. Sometimes I even give up for a while to see if they feel like letting go at another time.
sally
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good idea about the vents... never considered that.
I would follow the same rules as one does with a parrot, minus the clipping of wings.
Fans off, window blinds closed, no stoves on, cover mirrors, etc. I even worry about the a/c vents because I had a mantis land on one and he could have easily gone inside and been hard to retrieve.
Also, a parrot may not take kindly to the mantis if they come into contact.
I have definitely noticed that mantids make excellent dust collectors.
They always seem to find great hiding places. I wonder how they know that those places are hard for us to get to? :shifty: I have had some "fun" times trying to get mantids out of tight places with long thin objects. They just watch the stick coming and hunker down, not even budging when touched with it. l get worried that their feet will get damaged when they grip like that. Sometimes I even give up for a while to see if they feel like letting go at another time.
glock34girl
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My parrot is the only one NOT allowed in the Anisect room for obvious reasons. One being the sugar gliders would live to eat him. And he would live to eat little mantids. Lol even the dog is allowed in the Anisect room and that sets the parrot off. He doesn't like being alone. Lol he's actually bein adopted so should have fun mating with the ladies. So you guys do free flight your mantids huh. Cool. Oh also, parrots wings never got clipped. Train them up from a hatchling and they stick close provided the door is closed lol
Krissim Klaw
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I had one boy who loved the TV. He was always fluttering over near it so he could get a close seat to watch it. One time he decided to climb over my lower one (I have two TV's in my room) so he could stare up at the one that was on. I warned him not to climb over there because he would slip. A few seconds later I look over and he is gone. I checked as best as I could behind the entertainment system but didn't see anything so thought he had flew somewhere else. I spent an hour looking before I finally checked again in the crack between the wall and entertainment center, this time with a flash light. I look down and at the very bottom underneath the huge shock protector power cord that was about an inch off the ground, I saw the back end of his bum sticking out. He was on his back, legs crumpled. It looked like the massive shock protector was crushing him.I would follow the same rules as one does with a parrot, minus the clipping of wings.
Fans off, window blinds closed, no stoves on, cover mirrors, etc. I even worry about the a/c vents because I had a mantis land on one and he could have easily gone inside and been hard to retrieve.
Also, a parrot may not take kindly to the mantis if they come into contact.
I have definitely noticed that mantids make excellent dust collectors.
They always seem to find great hiding places. I wonder how they know that those places are hard for us to get to? :shifty: I have had some "fun" times trying to get mantids out of tight places with long thin objects. They just watch the stick coming and hunker down, not even budging when touched with it. l get worried that their feet will get damaged when they grip like that. Sometimes I even give up for a while to see if they feel like letting go at another time.
You see I have multiple TV's, game stations, and so on all hooked up there so it is wire city in that tiny enclosed area. I couldn't even reach him and if I moved the entertainment center the tension on the shock protector would undo and it could very likely shift and flatten him. Since he was just out of arms reach I got one of my chopsticks and lowered it to the bit of him I could see, still not even certain if he was alive. I moved it between his tiny mantis feet and he grabbed on and I was able to carefully pull him out and up. It was like he was just laying down there waiting for me to come rescue him. It took a good half hour to get all the dust off of him.
Sometimes I stand with someone and let my boys fly back and forth. They do seem to enjoy spreading their wings every once and a while.
ScienceGirl
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Oh no!!! Did you get him back? Is that species illegal to release in your region? And... How, pray tell, did he get outside?Yes, but outside....
I once had a male religiosa fly off into the woods around my house, which is about 40-50 feet away. He then landed in a tree, 20 feet off the ground.
sinensispsyched
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I didn't get him back. Thankfully, he's adventive, so he's been introduced to the area in the 1800's. I was mating him and my female m. religiosa on an open porch inside a kritter keeper. While removing him from the enclosure, he flew off.Oh no!!! Did you get him back? Is that species illegal to release in your region? And... How, pray tell, did he get outside?
that's why u let him exercise BEFORE mating so he doesnt feel the need to afterwards :lol:
i bred my majs that way last year, the male got an hour to roam on plants, a nice fly meal, then he tapped the female for a day and was just fine B)
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Dust won't hurt a mantis, will it?
This is just my over protective self asking ... since my Orchid mantis female Sakura surprised me with the ability to fly across my room. She landed right in a dusty area and got absolutely covered in dust. I took several minutes to get the dust off of her - her front paws, each one of her legs, her wings, etc. I even lifted her up to take a final look and give her a "shower" with the mist bottle.
This is just my over protective self asking ... since my Orchid mantis female Sakura surprised me with the ability to fly across my room. She landed right in a dusty area and got absolutely covered in dust. I took several minutes to get the dust off of her - her front paws, each one of her legs, her wings, etc. I even lifted her up to take a final look and give her a "shower" with the mist bottle.
