Would you like an appetizer with that?

[patrickfraser]

I mated and am now plumping up this female Creobroter gemmatus in preparation of an ooth. I had thrown in some maggots in a pinch and they had pupated. I just left them. They'll be flies soon enough.

I decided to put in a dubia roach and when I shook the cup for the roach to fall, so did one of the pupae. This thing grabbed them both and started munching the pupae.

I thought it was funny and had to share.

 

[sporeworld]

Hahah! Nice! Looks like a beer mug!

 

[patrickfraser]

Down the hatch!

 

[azn567]

Is it safe for them to eat the undeveloped fly and pupae shell...?

 

[lancaster1313]

Is it safe for them to eat the undeveloped fly and pupae shell...?

It probably is safe, if they are eating it.

Usually, a mantis will drop or throw the food if it is no good. I usually can tell how nasty it is by how far they throw it, and when they start wiping their face off on something.

I have fed my mantids mealworm and fruitfly pupae with no ill effect.

 

[patrickfraser]

I don't think there should be any problem, just gooey goodness.

 

[d17oug18]

lol nice pic lol

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

She seems to be enjoying the drink. Nice pictures.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Nice pic! Chuck, the House Fly King has pointed out, though, that the pupal shell contains, and the emerginf flies are coated with, the waste products from their metamophosis, and that the flies should be given a day for it to be rubbed off. The literature supports this. I must admit, though, that I have just been feeding newly emerged flies, and this will happen to anyone who just pops a bunch of pupae into the enclosure... So far, so good!

 

[Idolofreak]

Funny! :lol: Two food items at once! :lol: My woodhouse toad eats/bites just about anything that moves (Including my fingers but it doesn't hurt), and sometimes he'll eat bugs before they even hit the ground in his cage. :lol: