Pet Mantises Breeding Mantids

In this video I begin by mentioning the live interview I'll be doing over at Wally's Supreme Gecko channel at the link below. We'll be talking about mantises On Saturday 12/05/2020 at 4 PM Pacific Time/7 PM Eastern. Please pop in and say hi and give Wally a follow. He's got a great YouTube Channel about isopods (and geckos) and I'm regularly telling him he needs to rename his channel Supreme Isopods. He's doing lots of giveaways for the holidays between now and Christmas and so you have some great chances to win some money or bugs, etc from various hobby resources including Bugs In Cyberspace!

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In this video I demonstrate again my breeding methods for Giant Asian Mantises, Hierodula membranacea. It's sort of the speed dating version for YouTube. Every mantis breeding attempt with predatory bugs is an exercise in caution and observation. There is much nuance in the behaviors of the male and female during these tense moments and I do my best to articulate the events as they unfold in these videos, in the moment and of course, entirely unscripted. But much of it is intuitive in the sense that my actions are based on my experiences in watching mantises in this state of interaction many times before. You can't learn these things through reading mantid care sheets in the same way that you have to sit behind the wheel of a vehicle to learn how to drive. When to push the pedal, how hard, when to let off. When to brake. All this and then some consideration left over for hills, up and down and how they affect what you do with the pedals, not to mention the unpredictable nature of other drivers. Watch that gas tank gauge, and how much roach the female has left to eat and making sure her food tank won't run dry as the male makes a too slow approach and she's thinking she just finished her first Lay's potato chip and betcha can't eat just one!

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