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Mushouse
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Hot boxed a praying mantis (pics)
#18854658 - 09/17/13 05:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The other night, we found this praying mantis climbing near the porch, obviously stalking other insects which are always drawn to the light. I captured it in a small container and found a moth and a decently sized green leaf bug to feed to the mantis.
We were all sitting around the bong taking hits, hoping the mantis would eat one of the other bugs, but it wouldn't 'lock on' to them. A friend of mine took a hit, then got up suddenly and blew the hit of smoke through the vented top and filled the container! The occupants flipped out and went berserk trying to escape the smoke, but they just didn't know any better; short moment later, and they were totally chill.
Later, the leaf bug was discovered half-eaten (only its large wings and a leg were left); definite munchies. The moth was laying on its back quivering and died later; weed's first death?
The mantis definitely survived, though. I've had it in a terrarium with plants and sticks from outside, and I have used ultraviolet bulbs to lure moths and good, meaty camel crickets at night. She actually just produced an egg sac on the mesh top of the tank, so now I'm researching and looking forward to raising a swarm of baby mantids in a few months!
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Edited by Mushouse (09/18/13 04:00 PM)
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse] 7
#18854662 - 09/17/13 05:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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omg animal abuse
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Everlong]
#18857298 - 09/18/13 10:06 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm thinking about smoking those babies out once they're born. They have a tendency to cannibalize each other, so I wonder if that would make them calmer or hungrier.
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18857310 - 09/18/13 10:10 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lol aren't praying mantis under some sort of protection from being killed?
Not sure if that's true or not
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18857312 - 09/18/13 10:10 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I put a praying mantis in a tank with a tarantula i also caught yesterday, the mantis kept flying around, spider didn't have a chance so I let the mantis go..
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Smoke em out and then let them protect your plants from critters munching your buds
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Everlong]
#18857350 - 09/18/13 10:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18857381 - 09/18/13 10:38 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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OP, do you think you'd get high if you were hotboxed?
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the mad machinest said: I put a praying mantis in a tank with a tarantula i also caught yesterday, the mantis kept flying around, spider didn't have a chance so I let the mantis go..
You found a Tarantula?
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Magicman69] 1
#18857453 - 09/18/13 11:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah he ran in the shed when I was pulling the big door shut two days ago! this is the 3rd one I've found here this year, and the 2nd biggest of the 3. they're pretty common 'round here..
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Awesome spider
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: zee007]
#18857612 - 09/18/13 11:42 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Spiders are Ewwwwwwwwww
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dude where the fuck do you live....i never want to ever be there, that fucking tarantula 
even seeing it on the screen freaked me out
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My broski has a pet black widow...shits huge...and scary, and only eats things that are alive. It is really cool to watch it make its web awesome patterns. We call her shiva!
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Thats fucking awesome I love spiders machine, I saw a giant ass one the other day, I tried to catch him and keep him but he got away in a hole.
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Quote:
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trippinballs420 said: dude where the fuck do you live....i never want to ever be there, that fucking tarantula 
even seeing it on the screen freaked me out 
lmao you guize are pussys!!! it's just a big ass spider!! Texas btw.. people pay money for these as pets!!! this one ran up on me so I caught his big ass!!
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Uzziel]
#18857681 - 09/18/13 12:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Uzziel said: Thats fucking awesome I love spiders machine, I saw a giant ass one the other day, I tried to catch him and keep him but he got away in a hole.

they are pretty damn quick ain't they!!!?!?!!
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ill admit, i am a pussy when it comes to spiders...i am definitely arachnaphobic
fuck spiders i dont even know if id have the balls to kill a mother fucker like that...if i saw that bitch in my apartment id shit myself then move out without taking an eye off that big bastard the whole time
the noise one of those would make under your shoe tho
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I wonder if when the spider dies we can extract the poison
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: badchad]
#18858435 - 09/18/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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badchad said: OP, do you think you'd get high if you were hotboxed?
If I had been in there with that mantis, I'll bet I could catch a buzz.
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858458 - 09/18/13 02:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Let that mantis go!
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858464 - 09/18/13 02:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like we need two sterile bricks. One to put the spider on and the other to strike it repeatedly until dead. Just like the old guaranteed potato bug killer scam.
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: memes]
#18858516 - 09/18/13 02:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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memes said: Let that mantis go!
I definitely feel for that mantis, but I gotta try to get another egg sack from it. Giving it tons of food so that it can maybe produce another batch of its offspring. It gets to relax and get free nutrients, basically. They only live one year, so I'll bet she would thank me.
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858528 - 09/18/13 02:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm going to have a fucking mantis army!
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858552 - 09/18/13 02:58 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858554 - 09/18/13 02:58 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mantis was flying through my house the other day. Fucker was huge. we got a lot of em whereilive
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858559 - 09/18/13 02:59 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Maybe you can train them to do simple tasks. Like working together to move a remote control or something
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: dontknow]
#18858584 - 09/18/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm going to attempt to raise many of them, and see if I can get a huge population going. And when they occasionally eat one another, that will keep them strong.
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18858936 - 09/18/13 04:11 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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It grabbed a leaf bug last night, and it started squirting this bright green defense fluid, but I'll bet that only encouraged the mantis. That stuff was probably like the cream filling.
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18859169 - 09/18/13 04:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Make the mantis a tiny little paper pirate hat and give it one of those plastic swords that they put in margaritas. They just look like pirates kind of
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18859185 - 09/18/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You insect Nazis
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your creating a pray mantis army
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VivaLaMushie said: Lol aren't praying mantis under some sort of protection from being killed?
Not sure if that's true or not
No. They are very common, I don't know where this rumor came from but its extremely wide spread (my teacher told me it when I was younger)
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: fapjack]
#18860553 - 09/18/13 09:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hot boxed a scorpions cage once & got ants high on 2C-T-2.
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They really are the most majestic looking creature though
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: memes]
#18860650 - 09/18/13 10:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I remember when I usto catch bugs when I was a kid
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18939157 - 10/06/13 07:41 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I went to deliver another katydid to the mantis just now, and I discovered a second egg sack! It seems like her body becomes progressively plumper as she is fed over time, and totally slims down once making her egg sack. Amazing alchemy!
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18939205 - 10/06/13 08:06 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Hot boxed a praying mantis [Re: Mushouse]
#18939206 - 10/06/13 08:06 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I love praying mantis bugs. I love how their head swivels around. I have one that has been living in my pepper plant all summer. I saw it the other day trying to pull in a bumble bee. That egg sac is neat looking. Glad you are feeding her good!
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