SSimsswiSS
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I have the yard fully stocked, front and back and finding mantis everywhere. Their really good at blending in, and you really have to have a eye, for finding them.
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summoner12
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Got anymore steve? LOL I still have the one, and it's growing. About 1.5" long now and is green now.
SSimsswiSS
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Sure I have about 300 captive, from adult females laying there third ooths, to newly hatched.
Motherlode Chameleon
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If your going for a yard colony I highly recommend plants that flower all summer as they bring in more prey species of insects that will give you a larger population of mantis. When our yard is done I'm going the same route.
Motherlode Chameleon
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Have you got Chinese Mantises? That's what is found in our part of Central California.
SSimsswiSS
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Yes, I seed my yard/neighborhood with Chinese mantid. But also have native Stagmomantis californica mantid. I see the Stagmomantis mostly in the fall, near the end of their life cycle. But goal is to raise the Chinese year long indoors as a food item for my larger chameleons.
