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You can order praying mantis insects, praying mantis food and praying mantis eggs via mail in payments. Use the option offered on this page for mail in payments. You can order groups of 4 mantis insects at $28 per group with FREE SHIPPING, you may purchase as many groups of 4 praying mantis insects you wish.
TO SEND PAYMENT BY MAIL ~ Please click here to send an email message to us and indicate how many groups of 4 live Praying Mantis Insects you wish to purchase IMPORTANT : BE SURE TO indicate your name and address in the message so we know were to ship your mantis insects to. Be sure to indicate if you wish to order food along with your mantis insects. After sending your message, you will receive a reply within 24 hours indicating complete mail in payment instructions and an item check list along with the address to send the payment to
MAIL IN PAYMENT ITEMS : Groups of 4 praying mantis insects at $28 free shipping. FOOD ~ You can order a 4-6 week supply of food (enough food for up to 50 mantis insects) a 4-6 week supply of praying mantis food at $17 free shipping. Just indicate the items you wish to purchase and the quantity of each item in your email message. Click here to send your pre order message. You will receive a reply within 24 hours, thank you.
The Praying Mantis does not eat plants, they kill and eat pest insects! While many people are interested in raising the mantis as a pet, if you have pest insects such as mites, gnats, flies, white flies, aphids or other such small soft bodied pest insects infesting your greenhouse or garden, you can release the praying mantis insects in combination with other techniques to reduce or eliminate the pest insects!
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Buy USDA APPROVED Fruit Fly Cultures ~ The first type of feeder insects you will need to feed your mantis is the WINGLESS fruit fly species. USDA/APHIS approved Hybrid wingless fruit flies can not fly and will not populate in your home. No care needs to be provided for the fruit flies. Fruit flies are self sustaining and require no care on your part. You just keep them at room temperature (about 72 degrees) One culture is enough to feed up to 20 L1 or L2 size mantids for about 2 - 4 weeks! Simply tap about 4 to 12 fruit flies into the mantis container every 2 days or so for young mantids until they outgrow the food at which time you will need to graduate the mantids to eating crickets and other larger insects
BUY PRAYING MANTIS FOOD : USDA APPROVED SPECIES HYBRID CAPTIVE BRED SMALL WINGLESS MELANOGASTER FRUIT FLIES FREE SHIPPING! ~ If you have a hatchling or a praying mantis egg just hatched, you will need this small wingless species. If you have an L2 or L3 mantis you have the option to purchase the larger flightless species further down this page. Small Wingless Melanogaster fruit flies are the perfect sized food and will provide proper nutrition for newly hatched mantids, L1 and L2 mantids and some smaller U.S. Native species' L3 sized mantids. The price per 4-6 week supply bottle of small wingless Melanogaster Fruit Flies is $17 FREE USPS Priority Mail shipping! This is the smaller species of fruit fly. These are much more tiny than the flightless offered below. The WINGLESS fruit flies and are needed by hatchling mantids and other smaller sized mantids. For the first few weeks after your mantis arrives, fruit flies are the best food. Fruit Flies require no care and are the best food for your mantis in the first few stages of care provision.
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PRAYING MANTIS FOOD : USDA APPROVED SPECIES HYBRID CAPTIVE BRED LARGE FLIGHTLESS D HYDEI FRUIT FLIES FREE SHIPPING! ~ Food for most L2 to L3 sized U.S. Native Mantids. Larger mantids will need small to medium sized crickets once they are too large to capture large sized fruit flies. The price per 4-6 week supply bottle of large flightless D Hydei Fruit Flies is $17 FREE USPS Priority Mail shipping! This is the larger fruit fly species. These have wings but can not fly. These are needed for a mantis that has molted (completed a skin shed) twice or three times. Fruit Flies require no care and are the best food for your mantis for the first few weeks after arrival to you. These are also great food for baby frogs and lizards. Pet spiders also readily consume fruit flies
32 OUNCE FLIGHTLESS FRUIT FLY CULTURE ~ 4-6 WEEK SUPPLY OF PRAYING MANTIS FOOD $17 FREE SHIPPING
Fruit fly cultures are shipped separate from mantis shipments.. Fruit flies purchased without a mantis purchase are shipped asap within 7 days, usually sooner.. Fruit flies bought as food for mantids will be shipped according to the shipment date of the mantis or praying mantis egg. Timing is important.
PRAYING MANTIS CARE INSTRUCTIONS ~ BASIC MANTIS INFORMATION
See the basic praying mantis care instructions below and remember you will also receive the Advanced Praying Mantis Care Instructions Guide with your purchase.
BASIC MANTIS CARE : Basic Praying Mantis Care Instructions
1. MANTIS CONTAINERS : Most U.S. native mantids grow smaller than the giant asian, chinese and other large mantis species'. Smaller U.S. Native mantids may be kept in 32 ounce deli containers with a perch (you can create a mantis perch for your mantis as described in the advanced mantis care guide ebook offered on this web page) Containers which are too large will create a problem when the feeder insects can hide possibly causing your mantis to starve. Containers which are too small will not allow enough room for skin sheds and may cause a mismolt. More details on mantis containers are provided in the Advanced Praying Mantis Care Ebook offered below
2. Food : For the first few weeks the mantids will need USDA Approved Wingless Fruit Flies (fruit flies offered further down this page), later they will eat a combination of large fruit flies and crickets, then larger insects which you can wild collect along with crickets which can be obtained at most pet stores. When wild collecting insects, you take the risk of feeding mantids insects that have been exposed to pesticides which would kill your mantis within hours! Techniques to use for insuring that you do not feed your mantis pesticide tainted insects are described in the mantis care ebook.. While the mantis is a baby better known as hatchling or "nymph" (L1 L2 growth phase) they will eat only small insects. A combination of fruit flies and hatchling silkworms are an excellent diet for the baby mantis, they can also live on fruit flies only if you wish while they are this small, but later it is best to mix at least two types of food. Crickets fed with fish food flakes or even vitamin enriched dry cereal mixed with about 1/3 parts of powdered milk (feed to crickets dry and keep food dry in any cricket holding container). Crickets fed well are adequate as food for mantids if you can not locate any other types of feeder insects. Crickets are ok to feed the mantis only for about the first 8 days after the completion of a molt / skin shed, after the 8 day period, during the time right before a molt, you should use special techniques if you are left with no other choice than crickets as food for your praying mantis. If you can locate wild feeder insects, that will be fine as long as you know which insects to feed to them and which ones are best not offered to a mantis as food. Some insects are not even attractive to the mantis as food! As long as you know that insects in your yard and garden have not been exposed to pesticides, you may feed your mantis wild collected insects as listed in the advanced mantis care ebook. Again, some insects are harmful to mantids, some are not suitable as food, so be sure to see the list in the mantis care ebook offered on this web page. Make sure the size of the insect is small enough for the mantis to capture and eat easily, but large enough to be attractive and valuable to the mantis. Feeder insects should be no larger than 1/2 the size of the mantis.
3. Water : A brand new never before used spray mist bottle will be needed, use only purified water, tap water contains chlorine and other chemicals which will harm or kill a mantis! You should spray mist the lid of the container with 4 to 7 light mists once every 3 to 4 days. Do not keep the container absolutely wet! The mantids get most of the water they need from eating insects, but when they are kept in a container indoors water seems to be a must to keep the humidity adequate humidity level. A single layer of plain white paper towel should be placed on the floor of the container to prevent puddles of water and for slow release of moisture. Never allow puddles in a mantis container, they will drown the feeder insects and possibly the mantis. The paper towel prevents puddles while the water drips through the poly fabric coated ventilated or screen lid of a proper mantis container, so be sure to add the paper towel to the floor of your mantis container.. You will receive the mantis guide free with your order for live praying mantis insects. You also have the option to purchase the online praying mantis care guide, scroll down for the mantis guide purchase link. For more advanced praying mantis care information, see the ebook offer below. Scroll down to purchase the advanced praying mantis care ebook with mantis container instructions, mantis feeding instructions, information about molts / skin sheds and how to prevent harm to your mantis during that critical phase of mantis growth, instructions on quarantine for wild collected feeder insects, how to regulate the speed of growth for praying mantis insects, breeding, egg incubation instructions and more!
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BUY PRAYING MANTIS EGGS ~ PURCHASE CAPTIVE BRED FERTILE LIVE PRAYING MANTIS EGGS PRODUCED INDOORS DURING FEB 2011 WITH A LIVE VIABLE HATCH GUARANTEE!
We offer praying mantis eggs produced by our own captive rasied praying mantis insects. Praying mantis eggs have a shelf life, the eggs offered here are fresh produced from Feb 2011. We do not offer wild collected mantis eggs, wild collected praying mantis eggs offerd on the general market are often not fertile and at other times not viable due to prolonged holding time. The eggs offered here are captive bred, fresh, viable and fertile. Unlike common mantis egg dealers, we back our product with a guarantee! When you buy mantis eggs here, your praying mantis eggs are guaranteed to hatch. We mate the female mantids with the males indoors under controlled conditions to assure the eggs will be fertile. Eggs offered here are fresh and shiny, produced recently by captive raised mated females. Females are mated at least 3 times with different males to assure fertility! The praying mantis eggs offered for sale here are high quality, fresh and shiny praying mantis eggs, guaranteed to hatch!
Buy Praying Mantis eggs! The praying mantis eggs offered here will produce about 150 to 250 tiny mantids per egg. The mantids can be raised indoors or released in your green house or garden in warm areas of the U.S. This is the most common mantis in the United States ( T sinensis ) or common Chinese garden mantis. These are released onto plants to control pest insect populations and are also commonly kept as pets or for educational studies. Baby mantids eat mosquitos, fruit flies, aphids, spider mites, various small mites, small moths, cabbage worms, other pest worms and such other small insects. Larger mantids consume locust, crickets, beetles, roaches, large moths, large cabbage worms and other large pest insects. Mantids will also consume other mantids, but direct encounters are rare as mantids are mostly stationary and undetected as they do not prefer to move around much. Even if you plan to release the mantids into your garden, they should first be hatched indoors in a container for a higher population of mantids. To hatch your mantis egg, prepare a plastic container (32 ounce size or larger) with a screen or very thin fabric lid. You can also use an aquarium with a screened lid. See more detailed instructions on how to hatch a mantis egg below the purchase link Click on the buy now button below to buy Chinese praying mantis eggs with praying mantis egg incubation instructions included in a free Advanced Praying Mantis Care Guide Ebook included with your order. Buy praying mantis eggs with a hatch guaranteed for only $28 and free shipping
NOTE : Fresh, viable, fertile Praying Mantis eggs are shipped during all seasons of the year. The eggs offered are captive bred and guaranteed to hatch if you follow our instructions included in the online Praying Mantis Care Guide and Mantis Egg Instruction guide included free with your purchase of live praying mantis insects or live praying mantis eggs! Any mantis egg that does not hatch for you will be replaced for you! If you plan to release mantids outdoors, do so in the warm months. If you egg arrives during cold months, keep it in your refrigerator to delay the hatch until spring or early summer or hatch it and raise the mantids indoors.
FRESH VIABLE FERTILE PRAYING MANTIS EGG PRODUCED FEB 2011
Provided below are very basic praying mantis care instructions. There is quite a bit you need to know in order to successfully raise a praying mantis insect. See the basic praying mantis care instructions below and also consider the Advanced Praying Mantis Care Instructions Guide offered further down this web page.
BASIC MANTIS CARE : Basic Praying Mantis Care Instructions
1. MANTIS CONTAINERS : Most U.S. native mantids grow smaller than the giant asian, chinese and other large mantis species'. Smaller U.S. Native mantids may be kept in 32 ounce deli containers with a perch (you can create a mantis perch for your mantis as described in the advanced mantis care guide ebook offered on this web page) Containers which are too large will create a problem when the feeder insects can hide possibly causing your mantis to starve. Containers which are too small will not allow enough room for skin sheds and may cause a mismolt. More details on mantis containers are provided in the Advanced Praying Mantis Care Ebook offered below
2. Food : For the first few weeks the mantids will need USDA Approved Wingless Fruit Flies (fruit flies offered further down this page), later they will eat a combination of large fruit flies and crickets, then larger insects which you can wild collect along with crickets which can be obtained at most pet stores. When wild collecting insects, you take the risk of feeding mantids insects that have been exposed to pesticides which would kill your mantis within hours! Techniques to use for insuring that you do not feed your mantis pesticide tainted insects are described in the mantis care ebook.. While the mantis is a baby better known as hatchling or "nymph" (L1 L2 growth phase) they will eat only small insects. A combination of fruit flies and hatchling silkworms are an excellent diet for the baby mantis, they can also live on fruit flies only if you wish while they are this small, but later it is best to mix at least two types of food. Crickets fed with fish food flakes or even vitamin enriched dry cereal mixed with about 1/3 parts of powdered milk (feed to crickets dry and keep food dry in any cricket holding container). Crickets fed well are adequate as food for mantids if you can not locate any other types of feeder insects. Crickets are ok to feed the mantis only for about the first 8 days after the completion of a molt / skin shed, after the 8 day period, during the time right before a molt, you should use special techniques if you are left with no other choice than crickets as food for your praying mantis. If you can locate wild feeder insects, that will be fine as long as you know which insects to feed to them and which ones are best not offered to a mantis as food. Some insects are not even attractive to the mantis as food! As long as you know that insects in your yard and garden have not been exposed to pesticides, you may feed your mantis wild collected insects as listed in the advanced mantis care ebook. Again, some insects are harmful to mantids, some are not suitable as food, so be sure to see the list in the mantis care ebook offered on this web page. Make sure the size of the insect is small enough for the mantis to capture and eat easily, but large enough to be attractive and valuable to the mantis. Feeder insects should be no larger than 1/2 the size of the mantis.
3. Water : A brand new never before used spray mist bottle will be needed, use only purified water, tap water contains chlorine and other chemicals which will harm or kill a mantis! You should spray mist the lid of the container with 4 to 7 light mists once every 3 to 4 days. Do not keep the container absolutely wet! The mantids get most of the water they need from eating insects, but when they are kept in a container indoors water seems to be a must to keep the humidity adequate humidity level. A single layer of plain white paper towel should be placed on the floor of the container to prevent puddles of water and for slow release of moisture. Never allow puddles in a mantis container, they will drown the feeder insects and possibly the mantis. The paper towel prevents puddles while the water drips through the poly fabric coated ventilated or screen lid of a proper mantis container, so be sure to add the paper towel to the floor of your mantis container.. For more advanced praying mantis care information, see the ebook offer below. Scroll down to purchase the advanced praying mantis care ebook with mantis container instructions, mantis feeding instructions, information about molts / skin sheds and how to prevent harm to your mantis during that critical phase of mantis growth, instructions on quarantine for wild collected feeder insects, how to regulate the speed of growth for praying mantis insects, breeding, egg incubation instructions and more!
IMPORTANT ABOUT YOUR ORDER : UPON ARRIVAL ~
1. You must be present upon arrival to collect the mantis (or fruit flies) upon or shortly delivery by USPS. You will be informed of the shipment date of your praying mantis insects via email. The shipment notice is sent a day or two in advance to arrival of your praying mantis insects. When choosing the standard shipping option (free shipping) the transit time is 2-3 days, the mail carrier (USPS) may leave the box on your porch or in your mailbox without a knock or notice. If you have upgraded shipping or have Express Overnight as the default shipping method, you will be required to sign for the delivery. 2-3 day transit, or overnight shipment does not indicate that your order will be shipped in that time frame. A notice is sent to you prior to and upon shipment to inform you of an estimated or exact arrival date. You must collect the mantids promptly upon arrival.
2. Open the box, inside you will find either small containers containing L1-L2 mantids, or slightly larger containers for L3 L4 and L5 sized mantids. Inspect to find the location of the mantis inside the container. They may be sitting upside down from the lid of the container where mantids stay most of the time. Some mantids may tuck themselves inside or under the moisture strip / transit perch inside the shipping container. Open the container near the permenent container you have prepared. Use a brand new spray mist bottle filled with purified water to provide a mist or two of water for the mantis immeadiately upon arrival.. Make sure not to create large puddles, but make sure a few droplets land on the mantids back and forearms and the surface upon the mantis sits. The mantis will notice the water and will drink. Allow the mantis to drink water undistracted, wait to feed the mantis untill after it stops drinking the water. Provide fruit flies for smaller mantids, provide crickets or other soft shelled insects for the larger sized mantids.
Shipping times will vary, it could at some times take a couple of months to ship out the mantids. Please understand this when you purchase. IF your order is extremely time sensitive, please send an email to sellsmgmt@att.net to indicate so. Request an estiamted time of shipment for your order if your order is time sensitive. Again, there are at times delays as the mantids are alive and several factors could delay shipment of them. If your order is late to arrive please contact me asap at livemantis@att.net. Include your name and address and the item you ordered
United States Customers Only No sales to Hawaii ~ Your order will be rejected if you order from an area to which mantids are not shipped.
IMPORTANT NOTE ~ Some insect species' (including some of the over 2000 species' of praying mantis) are prohibited in the United States under the invasive species act of 1992. There are nearly 2000 species' of mantids offered online (including the banned Orchid Mantis, banned Ghost Mantis, banned flower mantis, banned egyptian mantis.. There is a long list of mantids which are banned under Federal Law in the United States!
AT THIS SITE WE OFFER LEGAL MANTIDS ONLY ~
*Live Delivery guaranteed (*someone must be present to collect the praying mantis upon or shortly after delivery) not to sign, but to promptly collect the mantids. In the very rare event there is any problem with a mantis you must make contact by replying to the shipment notice message sent to you upon shipment of the mantis within one hour of arrival to report the problem. Failure to be present to collect the mantids or failure to send a notice if there is any problem with your mantis will void the live delivery guarantee.
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