Orchid Mantis Care! - Pet Praying Mantis 

I have hatched mantises for gardening purposes, nice little benificial insect creatures.

Gosh they’re beautiful,I love how the orchid mantis with the pinkish white and yellow colors beautifully matches the colors of your outfit -layer of facial makeup and lip color😊

Aww what cute mantises!! I love all praying mantis, very helpful thank's again!!!:)

Most insects look gross, creepy, dirty, but mantises are so cool. I want one

Jeez, how good can a video get? Awesome pets! Thanks for the well-presented info.

Great video!! Mantid kingdom has orchids for $20 US. I was "lucky" enough to get a male once. They can get very skittish at feeding time. and they die FAST. One thing i like about orchids in general is they are easy to handle and they can hop from hand to hand real easily. Frankly with Orchids i found it hard to distinguish between male from female except for sub adult and adult

You haven’t uploaded in 2 years but I hope you are doing well ! I only recently found your channel and have been watching all your videos and you are such a kind person 🥺 I hope all is well for you

Just bought one its my first mantis wish me luck!

Hey, great video! Sucks they are so hard to get. Often people who are new to the hobby snatch them before breeders, like me, can get to them. Because of this the US hobby is slowly losing them which sucks.

I love your videos, please keep posting :) I'm getting my egg case in soon! I'm very excited. I'm only keeping 2 (separate enclosures) and releasing the rest in my garden

Yay! Good to see you posting!

ive seen one of your videos from 3 years ago possibly about the time it was uploaded, but ive only recently been really into mantis care vids and now i'm watching all of yours. i see you've still replied to comments somewhat recently and i think thats awesome 💫💫 even if youre not uploading anymore (which i would happily give you a super warm Welcome Back if you did! but i understand if not) its cool to see you checking up now and again💖

I really want some of these . They’re so beautiful .

Beautiful. I love it.

Thanks this vid was so helpful 😁

Why did you stop posting content? (not that it's any of my business) I loved watching your content, especially your mantis content. Do you plan on ever posting again? If you don't that's okay :)

Nice video thank you for providing good advice! I would love to eventually care for an orchid mantid as I never had one before, their vibrant colors especially on the legs are really interesting. For now I found a native species in my location. I believe it is a nymph male stagmomantis californica, but I'm not certain yet. I found him on my patio and I decided it would be a perfect beginner species to learn with. I made a large mason. Jar enclosure with garden mesh screening on the lid, and he adjusted to it quickly. Eventually when I gain experience with them, I plan to raise orchid or even ghost mantids, hopefully as a rewarding challenge.

Some video! Thankyou kindly, subscribed.

Beautiful mantis and beautiful you 😛. When I was young we used to call it kungfu master 😁 and believed that Bruce lee learned kungfu from the mantis 😅😅😬..

I was then going to say crickets are not the problem, it's that when you buy them from the pet shop they're hungry, no food in them, no nutrients in them, that is the problem. I feed mostly locust. What was interesting though was my devil's flower mantis, my favourite species, I won't have an other because they were just too difficult to feed. If it doesn't fly they don't take it, you can usually find wax worms ready that are already pupating in pets at home, but they only last 2 days after hatching, and hatching maggots is too irritatating for me just because the flies don't last in tubs, so you have to start new maggots every few days, and you get escaped flies, which last months somehow... I don't want flies flying around in my house basically, and I can't keep them alive as adults.

Just got my ghost mantis soon

I'm looking to get an orchid mantis in the near future.

awesome vid

Hello! I have always liked praying mantis. Recently though I am considering keeping them as pets, looking at different species and care advice. Thank you for an informative video! What types of plants (or vegetation in general) are good for a mantis enclosure?

I’m new to keeping orchid mantids, i have all sorts of other bugs but I got lucky enough and managed to get one. When it comes to spraying the mantis nymph/adult will it harm them if they get sprayed with water or is it better to just spray the sides of the enclosure?

what do they need for the bottom of the enclosure

You should get a Devil's flower mantis (Idolomantis diabolica), I kept some in the past, only a few made it to adulthood and they are considered expert level mantis but you should be able to do it.

Why aren't you uploading anymore? 🥺

what is the best way to control the humidty? What sort of device would you recommend?

do you know hierodula majuscula? also know as the giant rainforest mantis. ive never had a mantis before but ill be getting one soon and alot of people say that the giant rainforest mantis is great for beginners but i dont hear alot of people talk about them. so do you know any information about this species and if its actually true that they are good beginers?

My orchid mantis lives in my bathroom 😆❤️

How much do i have to feed them? Can i feed them spiders?

Hi! Love your channel! Do you have any suggestions for heat lamps? If so can you suggest? Thanks 😊

I have exo terra nano tank is that ok I have the small

How did you buy the mantises?

Where do you order them

where do you find breeders for orchids?!

But where do you buy them?

im the hundredth comment! yay!

Check out one minute stare down with an orchid mantis

What type of heat lamp do you use? Are there adjustable ones that can be put to 82-85 degrees or should I go with a regular lamp and turn off/on the regulate heat

Won't the mantis/insect be able to adapt to wherever the heat source is? I wouldn't imagine a mantis would move toward a heat pad and cook itself.

i want a ghost mantis, i am setting up the enclosure today, and I was wondering if ghost mantis fly?

Hello I’m from Finland and I need help to find a mantis I realy want a spiny flower mantis and a ghost mantis and a orchid mantis can some body help me to find one site where they sell in euros €

My question is don’t the nymphs need more moisture for molting than adults do?

Where did you buy your mantis? And can it be shipped to southeast asia country? I live in Brunei Darussalam

How many times a week do you feed them ?

Is illegal almost everywhere tho

Do you like spiders too or only ohrid mantis ?

Are meal worms ok?

Do you have a ghost care video? I’m planning to get one! Also my house temperature is near 27 C do I still need a heat lamp?

Nice. Where you from. I have a fresh hatch :)

Do they eat Mealworms? L3s

Where is the best place to get orchid mantasis except breeders

My fear of Insects makes me worry that I’ll get a mantis and then suddenly panic and when it’s on my hand I’ll just yeet it somewhere or even smash it with my hand. Insects are scary lol

My orchid died I was holding my mantis and was playing my phone on another hand And my mom called me to go down for dinner and when I opened the door knob I accidentally squeezed it

Orchid mantis looks like pink spiders😬😰

I think they should be free in the wild, not kept as pets

Too many ads gave up and watched someone else's vid 🤦🏻‍♂️

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