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

@doggocat4464

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Bashaw You mean :’( Right?

@GregBashawOfficial

6 жыл бұрын

꧁ Crunchy Jaws ꧂ I did that face because it’s sad but she died in peace

@pierredelecto7069

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Bashaw I’m new to the mantis world. Hatched an egg sack and had a ton of cannibalism. Then my last survivor was bitten by a spider that somehow snuck into his cage with the insects i got for him. I have much to learn. Thanks for the vids. I will learn from you before I try again

@doggocat4464

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Bashaw Ah, I see.

@SUGAR_XYLER

6 жыл бұрын

A female will soon die after laying eggs. Your mantis was a male

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.

@rat9625

5 жыл бұрын

Selena Lynn Becerra that doesn’t seem too safe for him, what if he jumps on your bed when you sleep and you roll over?

@axtra9561

5 жыл бұрын

@@rat9625 lmaooo

@spetz9879

5 жыл бұрын

best tip for you my friend kill Milton. (keep me updated on your assassination)

@rickdee6053

5 жыл бұрын

Does he eat the Spiders to?

@s3dchr

5 жыл бұрын

Hyello, I would like to buy a Milton, do you have any Miltons?

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.

@wolfant3082

3 жыл бұрын

Rip

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.

@thomasl8734

6 жыл бұрын

Revenger X .....DO NOT feed it ants. The formic acid in ants can kill the mantis. Go to your pet store and get mealworms or crickets.

@xrodarte82

6 жыл бұрын

oh shoot, thanks dudes... didnt know, I appreciate that.

@Clauriffo

6 жыл бұрын

I suggest you feed it flying insects because that is what they eat more in nature. I heard ants can be dangerous. You can buy them or just catch them yourself for free. Put some fruit in a container and leave it out to rot. The day after close the lid and put it in the freezer for 5 minutes. The flies will be temporarily frozen so they are easy to handle. Put a couple in with your mantis and after a couple of minutes the flies start moving again and the mantis will grab them when hungry. Easy and free...... Mine is eating wasps now cause that's the insect that I seem to catch the most.

@einin9758

5 жыл бұрын

A mason jar is in no way large enough

@ramonbravo5284

5 жыл бұрын

Can you feed the mantis with small cockroaches that intrude your home? I recently got it yesterday.

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.

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

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

Just got my first mantis today :D

@Smirgergrad

5 жыл бұрын

Is it still alive?

@jonathanf.8574

5 жыл бұрын

@@Smirgergrad lmaoooooooo

@cdawg4406

5 жыл бұрын

@@Smirgergrad no unfortunately but I have 5 more now 😁

@fullalphanerd4988

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@muhamadyanuar4081

4 жыл бұрын

Same broo

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

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

@emmyb3168

3 жыл бұрын

Do you still keep mantises? I got my first 2 a week ago and one of them lied an egg sack>:)

@user-uy6ds1nf3g

3 жыл бұрын

i caught a juvenile any tips to carE for it

She was so adorable. Great vid!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wow! Really good video! Thanks! :)

i love your videos dude :)

Great vid bro thanks!

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

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

Great video surprisingly!

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

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

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

I hope your experience was good!!!!

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

@GregBashawOfficial

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas The Drummer aw thank you. I’m not sure on its official name. All I know is that it is an artificial plant I found at PETCO

@tomfrance3505

6 жыл бұрын

yeah i ended up finding one that looked like that and realised it was a cheese plant, thank you though :)

@TheRolemodel1337

6 жыл бұрын

It looks like a plant from the monstera genus but its plastic :p

Good info cheers fella :)

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

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.

@JediMasterLucia

5 жыл бұрын

Hierodule memanacea female, sadly she is passed away. she was a kind mantis, except for her prey.

@othellobarker1291

3 жыл бұрын

@@JediMasterLucia so her prey killed her? T_T

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

@jakesjournies4588

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet..I was in Berry Creek and had one land on my head and we ended up hanging out for 3 days until he disappeared..Cheers

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

😮 amazing

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:)

Such a beautiful precious baby…

Ohh the cute little head swivel

Love Halo poster^^

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.

@echoesvayne9790

27 күн бұрын

I feel like some captive raised animals can live a lot longer than typical life expectancy I have some fiddler crabs going on 5 years and all the pet sites say 1.5 to 3... wouldn't expect that out of a seasonal insect but I can see hitting 3 months as an adult

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!!! 👽

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. They have 1 ear located in between their legs, I don't know much about how that works for them. The bouncing is usually attributed to making themselves appear as a branch in the breeze for their prey or when they might be nervous in the presence of a potential predator. I would love to know more and think it has to do with them enjoying music through their senses.

Awww she's so cute

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

2:48 SLIPPERYSLIPPERYSLIPPERYSLIPPERYSLIPPERYSLIPPERYSLIPPERYSLIPPERY!!!

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

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

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

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 subscribed

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.

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...

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

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!

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

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.

@Clauriffo

6 жыл бұрын

If you want to know for sure count the body segments. Females have 5 and males have more. The big abdomen and big wings are also signs to recognize a female. Males are skinnier and smaller wings with 6 to 8 body segments.

@chris-andrebrissett5208

5 жыл бұрын

@@Clauriffo thanks for that💘

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?

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.

Mantids seem to have a slightly higher level of consciousness than other species in their class. Very interesting as a pet.

I frikin love mantises their so cute

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

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

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?

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!

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

@percyfloof

4 жыл бұрын

@Amel Bougrouz Sadly, no :

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no what happened?

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

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

@Nomster_111

3 жыл бұрын

@@CristusCleetus Yes, a praying mantis pokemon

@desolateelegy2126

3 жыл бұрын

After its 2nd molt, name it Scizor.

@SoMuchYellow

3 жыл бұрын

That’s my mantis’ name! But I think it will be yours. Cause it’s about to die now :(

@desolateelegy2126

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoMuchYellow Aw, rest in piece Scizor, may your Metal Coat find peace.

@Chickenislife69_

3 жыл бұрын

@@desolateelegy2126 Yes

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.

Thanks

thank you

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

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?

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.

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

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.

Is it okay to take them in from the wild or no?

Can you keep them together when they are babies

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

Please make more videos!!!

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 heard that sometimes they nibble or bite you is that true?

Can I just release one in plant t room

I have a baby praying mantis, l feed it 3-4 times a week. Do you think l should leave fruit flies in there all the time (except for molting) or should l just keep it to my regular schedule.

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

How do the abdomen look with that schedule? If they look thick then keep to that routine.

We have a Lot of praying mantis just showed up in our yard never seen before was wondering does the weather have anything to do with them appearing out of the blue I’ve been living in this house for three years and this is the first year I’ve ever seen them….. crawling up the side of windows on the wall outside at night

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

Not entirely sure but it could be the shift in temperature or if there was a change in habitat near by. For example many decades ago when my mom was a kid where she lived there was a bunch of trees and woods that got torn down to build a Meijers which is still here in my town today. After that happened and all those trees got taken down, praying mantises traveled to my mom's street and made their homes around the houses where she lived.

Is the live plant okay just in eco earth? How do u keep the plant healthy? I'm thinking fertilizer, but that may harm the mantis. Idk if that's safe for them. Maybe keep the plant in a pot and bury it in the eco earth so they dont get to the potting soil. The wheels are turning.

@thefightingplumber

4 жыл бұрын

I have Hedera hibernica in all my enclosures. Growes great, easily cut a peace off and stick it where you want it to grow. Use it for my tarantulas and my mantis. Always remember that a cricket could eat the plant and poison the animal so make a educated choice

I have a question can u use normal dirt for growing plants to use as the substrate

@samarium1934

5 жыл бұрын

Usually because it's easier to use plastic plants, and you run less of a risk of mold

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.

Do you use rain water or tap water to spray in the enclosure?

@eastcoastfiretrucks1837

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t recommend either because both can harness bacteria which are dangerous to the mantis.

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

@eastcoastfiretrucks1837

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, just make sure they have hiding spaces because your mantis may try to eat them.

Hi there! I have a question, after it molts are you able to hold them or should you leave it for a day or so until you can hold them?

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

Late response 🥴 I'd recommend not holding them for that first period of 48 hours after their molt to ensure that their new skin has hardened, as they are still vulnerable coming out of this process. If handling in some capacity is necessary, just proceed with caution and be very gentle. But in case they got nervous or just decided to jump off your hand and the fall it may not go well for their delicate body.

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

Hello! I'd gladly appreciate if you respond as soon as you can, but where did you get you're mantis? And do you know any safe/healthy/good websites to get a nymph myself? I've been very interested in these cute buds, and really want one. I've done my research, but I have know clue where I can get one! Thanks!

@GregBashawOfficial

6 жыл бұрын

EchoAnimations I actually got an egg case from my local hardware store early in the spring. Once thy hatched I kept the biggest one. I know you can find a lot of different mantis species at reptile expos, reptile shops and online reptile stores like lllreptile or underground reptiles. Hope this helps!

Ok I'm just curious, when you handle a praying mantis does it feel like a thistle? my friend's praying mantis just died but it laid 2 egg sacks

@RupertRumble

2 жыл бұрын

Mine are about an L5 and I can just not feel a little tickle if I handle them, which is rare right now. The only time I have handled an adult, the arms didn't feel prickly like some people experience, to me it just felt like the texture of the forelegs was a little sticky on my skin.

where do you buy a mantis?

How often do you recommend feeding one that’s L3-4 in size? I was told anywhere between once a day to four days so I’m unsure day :/

@eastcoastfiretrucks1837

2 жыл бұрын

Just feed until their abdomens get full, or until they aren’t hungry. If it refuses food as a nymph, more than likely it’s getting ready to molt.

Longest i had was a Budwing 14 months from purchase

is this breed a good beginner? and is it okay to do a mix of artificial and real plants?

@GregBashawOfficial

6 жыл бұрын

mellow yellow yes it’s a great beginner species. Including both live plants and fake plants would be perfect.