Had one of these in a Christmas tree my now ex-wife and I brought home from a tree farm... Think I counted up to 32 of them, in our trailer we were living in.
Years ago at work we had a Preying Mantis find its way in the building. We named him Manny. We moved Manny to the window and would catch flies to feed him, he stayed there for months. Then more towards the end of the summer another one came in, we named her (?) Manny II, so we put that one in the window with Manny. They eventually mated and one of them laid eggs.
Maybe around November-ish Manny passed on. Manny II may have left at some point, I forget. We made a casket out of cardboard and buried him in a patch of grass. RIP Manny.
We moved the eggs inside of an aquarium and come springtime they hatched and we had 100s of the things. We took the top off the aquarium and let all the babies loose right by Manny's grave.
edit: Is the term I'm looking for a terrarium? There was no water in the in the vessel we used to contain the eggs.
I found this picture of Manny eating a grasshopper. It looks like we did have a little environment set up for him with grass and dirt Manny
To every saying the female eats the male after mating - We were partial to Manny since he was the original. He was the male. We were in the building when they mated and when it was over, or when we thought it was probably over, we separated them.
Dirt_E_Harry on June 8th, 2021 at 14:38 UTC »
Congratulations on your newly acquired pest control system.
Problycool on June 8th, 2021 at 15:31 UTC »
Had one of these in a Christmas tree my now ex-wife and I brought home from a tree farm... Think I counted up to 32 of them, in our trailer we were living in.
svtcq on June 8th, 2021 at 15:57 UTC »
Years ago at work we had a Preying Mantis find its way in the building. We named him Manny. We moved Manny to the window and would catch flies to feed him, he stayed there for months. Then more towards the end of the summer another one came in, we named her (?) Manny II, so we put that one in the window with Manny. They eventually mated and one of them laid eggs.
Maybe around November-ish Manny passed on. Manny II may have left at some point, I forget. We made a casket out of cardboard and buried him in a patch of grass. RIP Manny.
We moved the eggs inside of an aquarium and come springtime they hatched and we had 100s of the things. We took the top off the aquarium and let all the babies loose right by Manny's grave.
edit: Is the term I'm looking for a terrarium? There was no water in the in the vessel we used to contain the eggs.
I found this picture of Manny eating a grasshopper. It looks like we did have a little environment set up for him with grass and dirt Manny
To every saying the female eats the male after mating - We were partial to Manny since he was the original. He was the male. We were in the building when they mated and when it was over, or when we thought it was probably over, we separated them.