will mantids eat cicadas?

[sally]

I just saw on the news it is going to be a big year for cicadas. It would be nice if they were a delicacy for mantids

 

[D_Hemptress]

i just read a little blurp about them, interesting! id ont see why a mantis couldnt eat and enjoy them

 

[aNisip]

The love em!!!

 

[frogparty]

My first real memory of a mantis is finding a very large female mantis eating a cicada in my grandmas garden in Maryland

 

[angelofdeathzz]

I would only try it with a larger mantis or it may get pulled all over the enclosure, maybe even go hang gliding for a bit...

 

[aNisip]

I would only try it with a larger mantis or it may get pulled all over the enclosure, maybe even go hang gliding for a bit...

Some of my younger more aggressive mantids have experienced this

 

[Tony C]

The real question is, can they eat cicada killers? :devil:

 

[Mime454]

I don't think that we in the Midwest get cicadas this time. It's for the east coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicicada#Broods

 

[agent A]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miomantis_caffra_eating_a_New_Zealand_cicada.jpg

 

[Malakyoma]

13 billion cicadas appearing along the east coast. I wonder how I would be able to find and catch or trap them? imagine all the yummy food for my babies

 

[Fishe]

id like to know an answer to this as well

 

[frogparty]

Tony- cicada killers are scary as

 

[brancsikia339]

I have cicada killer nests all over my and my neighbor's yards. I catch em every year for fun. Never got stung! The big 4 inch females are crazy! Anyway i bet my aggressive orchid female would take some down

 

[frogparty]

When I was growing up in Nashville we had some nests in our garage and shed. They used to chase me around

 

[brancsikia339]

When I was growing up in Nashville we had some nests in our garage and shed. They used to chase me around

yeah they're nasty

 

[agent A]

Tony- cicada killers are scary as

how'd u bypass the filter? :lol:

 

[Digger]

Tony- cicada killers are scary as

Curious that the uber filter Rick has set up (it deletes "darn") missed frog's inappropriate descriptive.

 

[Digger]

13 billion cicadas appearing along the east coast. I wonder how I would be able to find and catch or trap them? imagine all the yummy food for my babies

Mike - your babies are gonna have to be big. Gimongous big. Cicadas are large (and as stupid as brown marmorated stink bugs). I can see adult T. sinensis and similar size feasting on these. But small mantids might get thrown around like they're on a run away Patton Tank.

To capture them: Walk up to one. Say: "Hello Ugly. You're gonna be lunch." Grab them by the wings. Put them in a container.

 

[Rick]

Absolutely. If you can catch them during the emergence you have a free and awesome food source for awhile.