Praying Mantis Care (How To Care For A Pet Mantis) 

This mantis’ life cycle ended months ago, she died in her sleep from old age :’)

My mantis is wild and free roams the house,hes been living in here for months and wont leave.. Hes had the chance but chose us. He eats all the bugs in the house and we catch for him too. His name is Milton.

When I was little I found a mantis egg sac and thought it was a butterfly chrysalis and brought it inside. It hatched in the house. There were itty bitty mantis babies everywhere for weeks. I felt so bad because they kept getting accidently squished by my family. everytime i found one I brought it outside where I found them. But I loved them ever since.

I'm sorry your little companion passed away. ❤

I respect this man’s posters

Mantis' are awesome. I saved one that was baking on the hot plastic of our garbage bin outside. He's probably the size of my thumb nail. Gave him a nice set up in a mason jar w/ dirt and twigs for him to hang. Well, we dont actually know if its a boy or a girl, but we named him Howard (after Howard Stern). Howards been eating ants on the reg so far. He has gotten slightly bigger.

This is a very helpful video. There is a young boy selling chinese mantises for charity this weekend and I plan on purchasing one. This video has pretty much solidified the decision to purchase one.

I get soooo many of these girls in my garden I LOVE them. I grow with zero chems.

That's cool how it crawls on you. I always see them in my yard but I've never touched them

Just got my first mantis today :D

I’ve been keeping Mantises since I was 9 and I’m now 11,

She's amazing thanks for taking such good care of her :')

Cute mantis! I love them! They’re always so interactive 😅

She was so adorable. Great vid!

Great video! Well done. Thanks for sharing the information.

Great video, I’ve bought a kit and wanted to do research before buying one :). My manual advised not to put by a window sill though as it could fluctuate the temperature which can in turn cause death.

Thank you! Recently we’ve saved a pregnant praying mantis from the snow and we’re trying to help her out!

I been wanting one for years hopefully I get one. Great video bud

Thank you! I'm going to be getting my first praying mantis :) I'm so excited

Beautifully done video sir. I learned so much and ... your mantis ... was... gorgeous. Thank you so much, sir.

Great video, thank you! Thinking about caring for one myself

I've recently captured a wild adult mantis for my aquarium and this video helped me give it a happy last month(s)

What a great video! My four year old was FASCINATED the whole time! Thank you for this!

Thank you for the advice :) I got a Mantis yay! :D

Great vid bro thanks!

Lol. Idk why I like this video. It's pretty cool and the music behind it is goes with this. I like mantis

Wow! Really good video! Thanks! :)

i love your videos dude :)

Great video surprisingly!

You said humidity didn't matter and then you said it did. I think it does help. They also live longer after they become adults than you think...I have found about 3 months..maybe more. Thanks for your vid.

Thanks Greg, I recently caught one in the wild and brought to my grandsons 6 and 3. Passing away in ones sleep from old age is a blessing. Cheers

Thank you so much for this Video my mom is letting me get one even maybe two💓

Great vid! Just a suggestion: The fake plant you have is incredibly smooth and makes it really hard for a mantis to grip onto..so I would suggest either getting another fake plant with ridges or just put branches in the enclosure so they don't have to struggle so much trying to climb..especially since your pet enclosure isn't mantis friendly due to it having smooth plastic walls. In the wild they would never hang on to a smooth plant..they need texture to grip on.

Such a beautiful precious baby…

Good info cheers fella :)

now i have an idea how big my mantis can grow. I have one for a month now and it is still a baby mantis. but he/she eats good and is doing well.

Awww she's so cute

I remember I was in my backyard in Chico California and a baby praying mantis flew into my face and chilled on my head for a minute hitting me his lil blade claws

Greg Bashaw you are the man my 3 boys just saw your vid damm so cool man i just sub my boys love the mantis they want one now were is great place to get one or can i just walk around my area and just find one like we did last week

What plant is that? it looks so nice! and i dont even know your mantis but shes soo cute and im gonna miss her :(

Awe I feel much better knowing that they tend to fall when they get older She had been hanging upside down and one night was shaking and fell a couple times but was fine in the morning we went for our window walk to catch flies and get a sun bath She was eating many flies a day even ate 6 that day We interacted through out the day every time I came in my room A lapse of 2 hours and when I had returned she had fallen face first to the bottom of the enclose and was dead It was unexpected because she was just fine active and walking on me and eating I had a table top heater outside the enclosure and a lizard pad to keep warm and always kept humidity up But I thought the heat had maybe killed her I could not get any info on end of life symptoms So thank you

This was a cool video. Very informative, however I did keep 2 together and they didn’t eat each other! Just kept them well fed:)

Ohh the cute little head swivel

I have a giant one living in my bathroom in my plants. I had another in the house this spring, hopefully she found her way out. I had a lot in my yard this year. Mine loves music & bounces back n forth like shes dancing & bobbin her little alien head, cracks me up!!! 👽

Love Halo poster^^

I frikin love mantises their so cute

I’m going to a reptile expo soon and I’m thinking of getting a mantis 😌

i just had an egg case found im my garden fence hatch out in November. so now i have to figure out what to do with about 100 nymphs

Oh I found all mine in the same place and they were there for the whole time I was setting the enclosure for them I guess I will release 3 of them tomorrow

Great video bro. I currently have ghost nymph and African nymph. Is there such a thing as over spraying thier enclosure?

I might be getting one! Im finding out today. 🥰

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thank you

I had a giant praying mantis pet about 2 years ago. He became a beautiful green male. He always tried to climb on top of head or my glasses lol. He lived I think around half a year after his last mold. It was veeery painful to see him during his last weeks and days, as he slowly began to lose ends of his limbs (I i thought it was due to the crickets in the enclosure that bit them off at first.. since like the uploader i liked to have a few in there, so he could hunt them whenever he wanted), slowed down, finally lost orientation and couldn't climb anymore. For around 2 days before dying he'd just lay there and his legs would still move, but continuously less and less. Around that time his mouth stopped moving altogether, so he couldn't eat or drink anymore. It was the slowest death I've witnessed so far. And it was very sad and heartbreaking not being able to help him or at least give him a quick pain-free death, as I don't know how to. I would like to get another giant mantis one day, as I loved that guy so much, but idk what to feed it, so that the food doesn't become dangerous to him one day. My guy didn't hunt much for mealworms unfortunately.. and the pet stores where I live don't sell any other feeding insects that can be fed to an adult mantis.

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I found a baby mantis on a cut tree log today, everyone who has never touched or had mantis, the claws don't actually hurt. Might tickle a bit but if your gonna have problems with them not eating, then may mean they are close to molt. Good luck out there!

I'm pretty sure that's a female because of the swollen abdomen. Males never have an abdomen that large and the wings are the more prominent part of their back, while the abdomen is the more prominent part of the female's back.

I want one. I will name it Scyther. Tread lightly, invading ants.

I just got my first mantis. It's amazing.

So I have a question. I plan on getting a mantis as a pet. Would all the steps you showed on here work for a Orchid Mantis? I know they're the same species. But not sure if they live the same. Any tips? Also great content keep it up!

Hey your cool . Love the way your video ran. How's a cat carrier and a cat to toughen the mantis up? 2 ND comment kidding. My cat is a killer but then again I'm really broke, is there money in mantis fights??? Lisa.

Please make more videos!!!

I have a giant asian mantis but i don't know what to feed it it's L6 but it doesn't even touch locusts ever if they are smaller then them.

This was helpful video. I have a pet mantis from our back yard. I keep the tank around 70 degrees and moist 1x day.it is fall now so she just laid a sac of eggs. It has been one day the sac is on the branch in tank. I am not sure what to do. I read to take the branch out, put it in its own tank and leave it in the (unheated) garage until Spring. Is this the right thing to do? Please help!

I just purchased one of these. I was wondering, when there small, can they escape the critter keeper through the top? Mine is about a quarter size but skinny of course...I'm thinking it can squeeze though the grate top...

Awesome advice thank you Just found a massive boy in our back yard and looks like he might be getting a bit old so I put a fake plant out there for it to chill out on and I'll keep it sprayed down Thank you

One thing to correct, you can have perfectly multiple mantisses together, just make shure theres always food for them.

Prolly a stupid question but do I have to use aqua safe to take chlorine and that kind of stuff out of the water?

Hey I’m thinking about getting a mantis do you have any tips for starters? Also do I need anything for it outside of the tank like lighting or anything else like a uh light?

My boyfriend gave me a small Carolina mantis, she lives on a tree in my room and in the evening I put her in one of those butterfly hatchery net things and feed her crickets, mealworms from my darkling beetle enclosure, and I’ve seen her snag a fruit fly off of the tree. I also must around where she’s hanging on the tree every now and then. I plan on getting any future mantises I get a critter keeper, but should I make it a priority to get her one right now?

I've had grasshoppers drink out of bowls would it be safe for them or would I have to supervise or something

Same

She is very photogenic lol she loks like she is hamming it up for you.

One thing I know is that many species of mantis including the Chinese, can survive a few days of nights just below freezing.

Awww so said ;(

I got Chinese Tenders Sinensis , Egyptian Miomantis Payullii, Asian giants Hierodula Membrapcea and Caucasus Hierodula Transcaucasia prying mantis got them arrive yesterday plan on breed in future once grown up got 125

I just got a brown and white one

Longest i had was a Budwing 14 months from purchase

Does anyone know what it means when you always seem them their not always so common in some places of LA but I know they do thrive out here.

Hello I'm from Ontario Canada and thinking about getting a Chinese Mantis .Do they bite? And do u think she reconsises you ?

him: eating less CC Captions: eating glass deaf people: wow... did not know they have jaws strong enough to do that!!!!

Can you put springtails in their encloses to clean the bottom?

I have a arboreal terrarium with gravel substrate. Is it ok to house a mantis?

My cat was fixing to eat a mantis so I took a bowl and placed it in there because I didn't wanna scare it but it decided to go on my hand. I placed her on a plant because I don't have an enclosure but 5 hours later she was there waiting so I'm gonna find something for her.

is a 20 gallon too big? since you said a big tank can be bad I don't want to risk it. I have an empty 20 gallon but if it's too big ill buy a 10 gallon. or maybe I can use the 10 gallon when it's small but then upgrade once it's bigger? idk. someone help please!

Can I just release one in plant t room

Help me please 😭 an hour ago, I got a regular green mantis from my garden , I got it when it was crawling on my hand in the rain so I immediately took it inside, but after going into the container, it's trying to escape from me... I'm scared to open the container now , how do I feed it when he's trying to escape,

How do you get them used to handling

I am 12 and looking to get a mantis. Which species would be best and is it a good pet

Can they be put in a plant tent to control bugs?

I found one this morning nearly froze to death. It's been drinking well we still seems very weak. Not sure if it smacked into the house while flying or what. I've never taken care or one any tips?

Can you keep them together when they are babies

I have one problem for me is getting things for it to feed on

Every summer, me and my dad try to find them and keep them as pets. We can’t keep them anymore cuz we got a dog awhile ago

I’m thinking about getting one and have a few questions can anyone answer them? (I’m going to put them in number order for an easier read) 1 can you used bottle water with mantises (spray their cage etc.) 2 How big of an enclosure do they need 3 Can they eat like only meal worms or will that hurt them? 4 How often can you handle them/ when could you start handling them 5 Which species are calmer and more docile (fits my life a bit better and would be all around easier for me)

I want one

I don't know why but I can tell you play Jerome over the other Commanders.

So Manuel is still very young, I’ve been catching small moths at night and feeding them to him. I found Manuel on my car one day. I brought him inside and we are friends now. He sits on my hand when I play red dead redemption 2. He’s kinda wild. Manuel don’t give a f*** .... I’d find him a companion but I ain’t letting my boy go down like that. No way. 👊

Where did you buy the egg? I want to know because i am thinking about getting one.