(05-30-2012, 02:34 PM)Mantis Wrote: Not necessary. I've read some insects really aren't suitable (and harmful) for a praying mantis. So it would be a bad idea to feed it anything without prior research. Sorry, I meant to say in some Eastern nations, not all.
Yeah, I'm going to eat fried spider or baked tarantula in future.
Looks like you are quite open on what you eat.
I am not "brave" enough to eat any insect. No offense to those who are brave enough though.
Back when I was in high school, we had a large hand sized tarantula in our biology lab. I saw half eaten crickets in the tank.
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.
(05-30-2012, 11:13 PM)amanda509 Wrote: if you start with enough, and have the time for it, its a great way to save money. my bug breeding projects take up my room, i have a tub of breeding roaches, and a tub for crickets, but i transfer the cricket eggs to a ten gallon to hatch, silkworms do not take much room, i use a cake container XD id like to get into mealworms soon, but it takes them months to grow to a size they can be fed off...so it all depends how many animals you have. if you have one or two, buying from a retailer isnt bad, but if you have more, id say breed
Silkworms indeed do not take much room. All you need is a small paper box.
What roaches are you speaking of? Cockroaches gross me out.
I used to play with crickets when I was a kid.
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Have you created many insect farms?
Forgot what it was called, but the scenes were shot in Japan.
