(05-31-2012, 01:55 AM)Ram8349 Wrote: What insects aren't suitable for mantis? I thought they'd jump onto the chance of eating anything they can catch. Once I saw a type of bee (not honey bee) on TV, 30 of them wiped out a colony of over 30,000 honey bees. A mantis tried to catch one of those "bees", it caught it, but that "bee" fought back and chew the head off the mantis and took it back to its hive as food. Forgot what it was called, but the scenes were shot in Japan.
You must mean this video. I've already seen it and it's very interesting.
Mantids prefer live food. It is generally recommended that a mantis isn't made to face spiders or bees/wasps, since they can be formidable opponents. Whilst a mantis can hold its own against a black widow spider for instance, often it can't and in the second video, well, you'll see the outcome:
Of course, you could feed dead them dead insects/arachnids, but obviously anything poisonous is a risk, so it's best not to go for bees/wasps/spiders altogether. A website I read actually recommends against feeding many meal worms, and instead, only doing so in a small amount.
Quote:You can feed meal worms to your pet insects, however they are not staple food. They contain too much fat and not enough other substances to keep your pets healthy.
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Have you created many insect farms?
Forgot what it was called, but the scenes were shot in Japan.
