New bugs!!!

[Truffs1178]

Wow really cool!
Thats why mantids are my fave insects, there feeding way is so amazing!

Sure is! This one and the others will look like yours one day.

[Monza geckos]

Mantids are really awesome to watch grow as the food items get bigger and more diverse

[Truffs1178]

I'll be feeding them as diverse a diet as possible. Roaches, crickets, locusts, mealworms, pachnoda grubs, waxworms etc

[Monza geckos]

Really but the Egyptian mantids only get bout 3.5 inches surely a pachnodas too big

[Monza geckos]

What species you got at the mo

[Truffs1178]

Currently just indian flower and Egyptian. When I said pachnoda I just meant mantids in general. I'm going to get a larger species like giant Asian mantids soon.

[Truffs1178]

Started a fruit fly culture to feed the babies. It's just mashed bananas with moist cotton wool. The maggots/larvae of the flys eat the bananas and the adult flys lay eggs in the moist cotton wool. It's pretty cool how fast they breed but I guess you have to if your lifespan from egg to adult is only about 10 days.