Praying mantises are a very exotic insect that you can keep as a pet! Here are the steps to keeping it as a pet.
1. Find a praying mantis or buy one online or at a pet store
2. Get a container or fish keeper about twice as long as him and one time higher than him.
3. Put about an inch of dirt in the bottom and put things in it for him to clime on like twigs. You need to put in enough things for him to hide in or clime on but, not to much so he can't get his pray.
4. Get a spray bottle so you can spray the cage with rain water or distilled water for him to drink. If you can, find your own food but if you can't you buy live crickets for him at a pet store.
5. Clean out the cage once a week
IMPORTANT FACTS
1. Praying mantisis can live for 1-3
days without eating.
2. Do not drop the praying mantisis because
they could die.
3. Do not let a pet near it.
4. Their favorite food is crickets and butterflies.
5. Turn off all of the fans in the room you are letting
your praying mantis out in when they are mature enough to grow wings.
6. Let him or her out at least once in two days or the praying mantis will
grow to be vicious.
7. Praying matises will eat each, other even a mother will eat there babies.
8. A female praying mantis will have about 10 to 373 babies.
1. Find a praying mantis or buy one online or at a pet store
2. Get a container or fish keeper about twice as long as him and one time higher than him.
3. Put about an inch of dirt in the bottom and put things in it for him to clime on like twigs. You need to put in enough things for him to hide in or clime on but, not to much so he can't get his pray.
4. Get a spray bottle so you can spray the cage with rain water or distilled water for him to drink. If you can, find your own food but if you can't you buy live crickets for him at a pet store.
5. Clean out the cage once a week
IMPORTANT FACTS
1. Praying mantisis can live for 1-3
days without eating.
2. Do not drop the praying mantisis because
they could die.
3. Do not let a pet near it.
4. Their favorite food is crickets and butterflies.
5. Turn off all of the fans in the room you are letting
your praying mantis out in when they are mature enough to grow wings.
6. Let him or her out at least once in two days or the praying mantis will
grow to be vicious.
7. Praying matises will eat each, other even a mother will eat there babies.
8. A female praying mantis will have about 10 to 373 babies.