Product Description
Baby Giant Asian Mantis
Hierodula membranacea
If your weather will be above 85° or below 55° please check the "Hold for Pickup" box for live guarantee at minimum. We also offer heat packs and overnight shipping in addition to the hold for the highest level of protection.
We will ship you one L3 Giant Asian Mantis. They will grow to a 9 to 10 cm and become either brown or green in adulthood. This variety is known for it's comfort with human keepers and will often become tame enough to hold. You can easily bribe them with honey on a toothpick!
CARE AND STORAGE
Where should I keep them?
Your praying mantis should be kept in a mesh enclosure in which they cannot escape. An enclosure for a butterfly or small chameleon works well. Because they are still small babies, they can and will try to escape through even the smallest of holes. Your mantis should be kept at warm temperatures, at least 70 degrees (although 75 degrees is ideal). They cannot be too humid, 40 to 65% is ideal. Through their life their enclosure should be 3 times their length high, and two times their length wide.
What should I feed them?
If you are keeping your praying mantis as pets, you will need to give them food as soon as they arrive. Flightless fruit flies, available on our website, are an excellent choice to feed your young mantis. When they grow older, they can eat all sorts of different foods and attack anything half it's body size or smaller. Anything from worms to crickets, to even flies and Dubia! Also, misting of the interior of their enclosure is needed every 1 to 2 days for adequate hydration. For flies, you can buy our spikes and let them pupate into a bluebottle fly which they love!
| L1 /L2 | Melanogaster fruit flies |
| L3/L4 | Hydei fruit flies |
| L4/L5 | 2 Week Crickets |
| L6 to adult | Spikes turned into flies |
Can I hold them?
Yes! This species is known for their comfort with human handlers. In time, your mantis may come to trust you enough to allow you to hold it. To speed up the trust-earning process, a toothpick with honey may be offered to the mantis to coax it into your hand. Your mantis will associate you with being fed treats!
How big will they grow?
In time, with proper feeding and misting, your mantises will grow to 9-10 cm long and turn their adult color of either brown or green.
