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My daughter brought this day-old mantis home from her preschool class. Now I am stuck with the job of finding it's meals: insects smaller than it!

 

 

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First off, that is an awesome picture.

 

Small bugs like micro crickets would work.

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Thanks everyone for the advice. I have a good insect net but the mesh wouldn't hold anything small enough. I have a banana outside, hoping to attract a mama fruitfly or two, but so far no luck. There are a few small bugs in the bushes and grass, but mostly black flies which are maybe 5 times too large. And I haven't seen any aphids yet. I think the mantis eggs, being kept in a warm classroom, have hatched before their prey.

 

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If you have a compost pile or a pile of leaves take a scoop from under the top layer and put him in the container with it.tiny insects will hatch out almost daily at 75 deg.

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