loosing mantids in your house

[macro junkie]

i bet this has happened to lost of people..its happened to me many times..latest one was 3 days ago..i was feeding my shield mantis nympths.as i opened the tub it jumped out and fell to the floor..i had no chance in finding it..so i fed the others and forgot about it..i knew it would turn up in the end..any way today i just found it on a uv light on the celing..lol..it hadnt had no food or water for 3 days.i put it in the tub..misted it and gave it about 8 fruit flies..he drank.had all the flies..now hes fat chilling back in his tub im gald hes back and alive..i know there only nympths but when one gets away theres a very slim chance in it going to stay alive uless i find it in the next few days.


who eles has lost mantids in there house?one time i binned a what i thought was a dead ooth..i didnt empty the bin that week..on the saturday i wake up to find about 200 nympths on my walls and celing..took me a good 30 mins to collect them all and i was still finding them 1 week later..not sure how but 1 managed to end up on top of the towel railing in my bathroom.lol crazy little things..for how small these nymphs are and how far that bathroom is away for a human that would be like walking from London to Scotland ..lol

[enlightenment]

Originally Posted by macro junkie

i bet this has happened to lost of peoplel

No.

[macro junkie]

Originally Posted by enlightenment

No.

if you breed them and have 100s its going to happen sooner or later

[Lucifus]

A L2 Chinese mantid launched itself out of its tub before and blended in with the carpet. Found it an hour later crawling over my toe.

[summershow]

had a tiny theopropus elegans nymph completely best me once. it was the fastest species i've ever seen, to this day. i opened the pot, was looking at it, then BAM it was gone. turns out it had scuttled out of its pot, and onto the underside of the pot. this time i was lucky, the next time one of the other nymphs did the same disappearing act but was completely gone. found him after hours of searching at the top of my curtain. normally you can see where mantids scuttle to but these were just lightning quick.

left some pseudocreobotra wahlbergii loose in my room to mate and then forgot about them. when i came back they were gone so i left a lamp on during the night, pointed at the wall. sure enough in the morning they were there in the warmth.

woke up one morning and saw a little dark thing on the ceiling. it was a first instar phyllocrania paradoxa, poor little thing had been out for days probably. same with pseudocrebotra ocellata first instars, i think their container had a hole because i would see them hanging out near lamps and ontop of the tv for weeks, til they got too big to escape i think.

[enlightenment]

Originally Posted by macro junkie

if you breed them and have 100s its going to happen sooner or later

What is?

[Cosmicbug]

Originally Posted by enlightenment

What is?

Whats the thread topic!!!

Had loads myself, the nymphs normally get caught in webs eaten by all the spiders on the ceiling.

[enlightenment]

Whoops.

I'd thought I was on a different thread!

[XoxOriptideOxoX]

WELL iv lost a stick insect, well not lost but i was cleaning them out (takes like 30 seconds) and i had them both on my chest area and the phone rang so i went to pick it up and it was my m8 so i talked to her and i put 1 of them back but didnt know were the other was...untill i felt a tingle on my face and it crawled along my nose.....and then on monday they got out, i must of left the tub open abit bec i almost killed 1 bec it was on the door and i was about to slam it shut when i saw it lol =]

[enlightenment]

Originally Posted by XoxOriptideOxoX

WELL iv lost a stick insect

A stick insect, you say?

Did it make the front page of the local press?