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Adolin




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My mantises hatched! 7
#21737441 - 05/29/15 04:05 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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check it out. arent they adorable?
i let most of them out, there were about 200, kept about 40. mainly because it started raining, and they didnt want to leave yet
gonna let more out tomorrow, depending on how many are still there alive in the morning
eventually, there will only be one worthy of the terrarium.



Edited by Adolin (05/29/15 04:07 PM)
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musiclover420
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21737446 - 05/29/15 04:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I totally meant to buy a couple mantis eggs for the spring/ summer but completely forgot

That is a nice lil terrarium you have set up though.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21737453 - 05/29/15 04:10 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome wanna see those little guys grow up.
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Adolin




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its temporary, gets the job done though. i wish it was a little bigger so they werent as cramped.
the one i'm gonna use doesnt have netting, so i gotta wait till their big enough to switch em over
their really neat. they constantly clean themselves like cats
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21737462 - 05/29/15 04:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mantises are very interesting creatures
I remember I found a huge one a few years back that guy was like the size of my hand
He would always put his arms up and try to fight me lol
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praying mantis' are sick...
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I find egg sacks all over my obsidian piles.
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Adolin




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set one aside in a small tupperware bin, with some leaves, twigs, and a little ground beef and wet cat food. it can eat whichever its little heart desires, till its big enough for ants, flies and moths
its name is moonshoe.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin] 2
#21738144 - 05/29/15 07:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Praying mantises eat ground beef? What the fuck.
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Patlal
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How much do they sell for?
Unless you plan on keeping all 300 of them
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Adolin




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Quote:
Psychonautica said: Praying mantises eat ground beef? What the fuck.
they do. you give it to them by running a cotton string through it, and they eat the little chunks
they cant survive on it forever though, after 1 or 2 molts, they need to have chitin in their diet, which beef doesnt have and insects do
the babies like wet cat food too, like i said. they just need a little coaxing before they realise its food. he seems to like turkey-gravy FancyFeast. but ignoring the beef string
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Patlal]
#21738175 - 05/29/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Patlal said: How much do they sell for?
Unless you plan on keeping all 300 of them
you can buy adult chinese mantises for like 5-15 USD. it only cost 30$ for 5 egg cases though, each of which produces 75-300 alienbugs
i wont be selling any. i have 4 more egg cases out doors, and i released 75% of these ones that i hatched inside.
im gonna release a few more, and let the rest battle it out
wanna know what the most balanced diet is for a mantis? other mantises.
Edited by Adolin (05/29/15 07:36 PM)
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21738181 - 05/29/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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That's fucked up.
Once they mutate from the nuclear apocalypse we're all so fucked.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21738183 - 05/29/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Gresh said:
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Patlal said: How much do they sell for?
Unless you plan on keeping all 300 of them
you can buy adult chinese mantises for like 5-15 USD
i wont be selling any. i have 4 more egg cases out doors, and i released 75% of these ones that i hatched inside.
im gonna release a few more, and let the rest battle it out
wanna know what the most balanced diet is for a mantis? other mantises.
So you'll have an insect free backyard guaranteed then
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Quote:
Psychonautica said: That's fucked up.
Once they mutate from the nuclear apocalypse we're all so fucked.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21738195 - 05/29/15 07:16 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cute
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It has begun
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Adolin




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adorable to the third degree
Mantis are the cats of the insects world
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21738340 - 05/29/15 07:46 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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If cats slaughtered, and ate each other, and also ripped off each other's heads after sex..
How exactly are they like cats again?
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