Mantis as Food?

[Animalnstinct]

I was just wondering if it's safe to feed any of my pacman praying mantis to give it a wider variety of food?

[85MkIISupRa]

I always thought that if they catch you killing a praying mantis its a fine, also i dont think its a good idea to feed a pacman wild caught stuff just because it can carry parasites that can harm your frog.

[Animalnstinct]

As far as I know there isn't any legal issues with them and they aren't endangered. The ones I would be feeding aren't wild caught they are captive bred. I know people use them to feed to some animals I'm just not for sure about with frogs, specifically pacman.

[Whistly]

Hi
I used to keep a New Zealand native and a South African Praying Mantis for nearly two years but decided to let them go as I couldn't get enough food for them as they both grew quite big around 12cm, I could hand feed them flies and up to 5 at a time. I would definitely say DON'T feed them to any type of frog as the claws on there arms can get very long the ones on my South African one grew to about 2cm long and I'm certain any animal/insect wouldn't be grateful to have those in them. They are also the most ruthless killer I've ever seen as they show no mercy and put my greedy frog Jabba to shame when it comes to killing, if they're anywhere near the size of your Pacmans they won't hesitate to have a go at it and when your frogs try to eat them the mantids will probably go for the face as it's closest thing to them and might gouge their eyes. Also when you put anything near their mouth they will try to eat it so if the head didn't get crushed then it wouldn't surprise me if they ate your frog from the inside out.They also can't be kept together as they are cannibals so you would need a lot of containers to keep a sustainable amount. In conclusion feeding them to your frogs is a bad idea heed my advice and stay away from them.
Thanks Luke

[Roman]

When you put it like that...Mantis sound Awesome!! I want one

[Whistly]

Yes they're awesome pets after a while they get used to you and you can place up to 5 flies in each claw and they just eat a piece of each fly at a time lol. It's also fun to put some in their enclosure and watch them eat I remember putting a cockroch in about the same size as my SA mantis and it cut it in half and had a half in each claw it didn't manage to eat one half though so I refridgerated the dead roch and hand fed it to it for about 2 weeks.

[pacmanfr0g13]

Hi
I used to keep a New Zealand native and a South African Praying Mantis for nearly two years but decided to let them go as I couldn't get enough food for them as they both grew quite big around 12cm, I could hand feed them flies and up to 5 at a time. I would definitely say DON'T feed them to any type of frog as the claws on there arms can get very long the ones on my South African one grew to about 2cm long and I'm certain any animal/insect wouldn't be grateful to have those in them. They are also the most ruthless killer I've ever seen as they show no mercy and put my greedy frog Jabba to shame when it comes to killing, if they're anywhere near the size of your Pacmans they won't hesitate to have a go at it and when your frogs try to eat them the mantids will probably go for the face as it's closest thing to them and might gouge their eyes. Also when you put anything near their mouth they will try to eat it so if the head didn't get crushed then it wouldn't surprise me if they ate your frog from the inside out.They also can't be kept together as they are cannibals so you would need a lot of containers to keep a sustainable amount. In conclusion feeding them to your frogs is a bad idea heed my advice and stay away from them.
Thanks Luke

Oh thank you thank you for your post!!!!!! I am a praying mantis breeder and I almost had a heart attack when I saw the title of this thread...