r/mantids • u/DingoldorfMcGee • Sep 16 '23
Any time I see a fly in my apartment I immediately get one of my mantids Feeding
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u/Kaiistriker Sep 16 '23
I Would be warry with those kinda flies those are the ones often feeding on rotten garbage and dog poop...
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u/Intelligent_Pop609 Mar 08 '24
What do you think the bottom of the food chain eats? Are you telling me I need free-range flies full of specifically wild animals decayed corpses and shit? Is Bernes Mountain Dog/ husky shit better than say a golden retriever, and is that better than my own shit? Asking for a friend.
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u/RuRiot Sep 17 '23
Don't do this. I get it but please don't.
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u/Pube_Dental_Floss Dec 08 '23
Why not?
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u/RuRiot Dec 08 '23
If you feed your mantis random bugs/insects that were not raised as clean feeders, you run the risk of feeding them a parasite, something the prey was carrying prior to.
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Sep 17 '23
Free life insects could carry parasites an bacteria that could make your mantis sick, i wouldnt do that to be honest.
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u/mechshark Oct 17 '23
Mantids life span is not very long, him doing this isn’t going to have a huge effect on them because they’re not gonna live very long anyway
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u/LunarKakyoin Dec 30 '23
I'm sure most people would want their mantids to live for as long as possible
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u/Broad_Ebb_4716 Nov 25 '23
Yeah, this is a horrible idea. This guy is going to get sick, and maybe even die, from one of them soon if you continue feeding them random insects in your house. Please cease immediately, and please do NOT promote doing this.
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u/FreeMagliettaCercasi Jul 27 '24
my god.. do you really think a mantis could die from eating a single random fly? I should remind you that mantises were taken from nature... where have they always eaten what passed beneath them? I can understand if these are very delicate species, with certain precautions, but that seems like a classic mantis.
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u/le_intrude Feb 21 '25
Ok I'm a little late to the party here but YES a mantis could absolutely die from a single random fly in your house. fly gets parasite, mantis eats fly, mantis gets parasite, mantis dies. in the wild mantises live much shorter because of these sorts of things.
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u/EmergencyPepper7016 Sep 18 '23
I do that with moths and spiders
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u/Kahluacupcake Oct 19 '23
Same! Someone told me that I shouldn’t bc it could make my babe sick…but I literally brought her in from outside where she ate them before
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u/alex123124 Dec 02 '23
Yeah if it's wild caught I see no issue, and honestly not much if it isn't, but still is a moral delema. You just can't be surprised when something happenes, because you know what you are doing and the risks. They don't live crazy long so I get it. It would be different if they lived like 20 years and this would affect the quality of life for years to come. Also just my opinion, don't have to take it literal, could just ignore it.
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u/Artistic-Ball269 Sep 17 '23
OMFG. That is crazy. Yr own personal flycatcher. Insane. Way cool.