What is your/ your mantid's favorite grub?

[Quake]

I want everyone to share what feeder insects they like best and why.

House Flies

Blue Bottle Flies

Meal worms/ Super worms

Crickets

Etc

 

[The_Asa]

Blue bottles and roaches

 

[Rick]

Bluebottles and crickets and any insect I can find outside.

 

[idolomantis]

curly wings, exept my tenodera. they eat fingers.

 

[collinchang635]

Any type of flies,

Flying termites,

Most flying insects moths, butterflies, etc...

 

[idolomantis]

Any type of flies, Flying termites,

Most flying insects moths, butterflies, etc...

butterflies? i never feed butterflies.

1 i don't see them

2 there just so pretty, i could never do that.

 

[collinchang635]

There are a lot of them in my garden. They aren't very beautiful. Just plain white or yellow. When they lay their eggs they turn into caterpilars and eat my dads plants. So I get them before they lay eggs. (I think)

 

[d0rk2dafullest]

My orchids love bb's

 

[OGIGA]

Someone's going to get me for this... haha, but...

Feeder goldfish because they are the cheapest ($/gram), can come in small quantities, very available, doesn't take much to acquire, and doesn't run away.

 

[MantidLord]

Someone's going to get me for this... haha, but...Feeder goldfish because they are the cheapest ($/gram), can come in small quantities, very available, doesn't take much to acquire, and doesn't run away.

lmao, you did that on purpose.

Fruit flies for nymphs

Crickets for larger nymphs and adults

and superworms for the Larger greedier ones

Very simple. I do feed them flies and each other every so often. BTW, I feed them each other only when I have a greedy pregnant female and a dying, dead, or repeatedly mated male.

 

[hibiscusmile]

mine like fish too, only they are so hard to catch and hang onto, do u drop yours in and let them wiggle or what? also (dear God, I forgot what I was going to ask as I was typing it ) Oh, got it now... not a question though! I wanted to feed mine some tadpoles, but can't seem to catch them, we have a bunch of little frogs, but the grandkids caught 10 of them last time they were here, and they were so tiny and cute, we let them go :lol: , but tadpoles are ugly so I could do that if I could figure out how.

 

[collinchang635]

mine like fish too, only they are so hard to catch and hang onto, do u drop yours in and let them wiggle or what? also (dear God, I forgot what I was going to ask as I was typing it ) Oh, got it now... not a question though! I wanted to feed mine some tadpoles, but can't seem to catch them, we have a bunch of little frogs, but the grandkids caught 10 of them last time they were here, and they were so tiny and cute, we let them go :lol: , but tadpoles are ugly so I could do that if I could figure out how.

I got a lot of tadpoles. Would the mantid like it? Would it be okay to feed it to a mantid?

 

[idolomantis]

I got a lot of tadpoles. Would the mantid like it? Would it be okay to feed it to a mantid?

just try it some time(or not )

 

[OGIGA]

Oh, the irony. :lol:

I consider frogs (including tadpoles) more "evolved" than goldfish. Not sure how relevant that is to anyone.

 

[Quake]

I usually just catch them things outside, but it is getting cold around here, so I am trying out meal worms.

 

[d0rk2dafullest]

Oh, the irony. :lol: I consider frogs (including tadpoles) more "evolved" than goldfish. Not sure how relevant that is to anyone.

hhahahahaha

:lol:

 

[yeatzee]

Well I'm just gonna have to 1 up the tadpoles......Lizards.....just adds an etra spring in there step :lol:

In all seriousness though i'd have to say buterflies and other flying insect (fly's for the youngens).

 

[Giosan]

Flies, grasshoppers, waxworms from time to time. We stopt feeding crickets and switched to flies! Mostly because crickets are just grose

 

[Pelle]

Fruitflies and flies