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LIVE PRAYING MANTISES:
Praying Mantis Egg Case
Living Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis Kit

MANTIS FOOD - Nymph:
Flightless Fruit Flies
Wingless Fruit Flies
Silkworms - Extra Small
Fruit Fly Larvae
Rice Flour Beetles & Larvae

MANTIS FOOD - Adult/Juvenile:
Silkworms - Small/Medium
Feeder Egg Case

PRAYING MANTIS SUPPLIES:
Mantid Kits
Mantid Tongs
Mantid Enclosures

MANTIS - EDUCATIONAL:
Mantid Life Cycle Figures
Mantid Books

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Live Guarantee
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Shipping Schedule
Frequently Asked Questions
Living Food for Praying Mantis - Adult
     (You'll find food for smaller mantises
HERE).



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Silkworms - Medium

Silkworms are super-duper nutritious and make an ideal food for your praying mantis. These are "Medium" Silkworms and are approximately 3/4 - 1 inch. They are soft-bodied, nutritious, grub-like caterpillars that your mantis friends can easily capture & devour. Each order includes enough mulberry food to feed your silkworms for a short time. You may wish to grow them larger by ordering additional food below. Instructions included.



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Silkworms - Large

Silkworms are very nutritious and make an ideal food for your praying mantis. These are Large Silkworms and are approximately 1 1/2 - 2 inch. They are for large adult mantises. Silkworms are soft bodied caterpillars that your mantis friends can easily capture & devour. They are high in calcium and important nutrients. Each order includes enough mulberry food to feed your silkworms for a short time. If you wouldl ike to grow the silkworms larger, you should order additional food below. Instructions included.



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Silkworm Food

This is food for silkworms, not food for praying mantis. The larger your praying mantis, the larger you can grow your silkworms (up to 3''), but you'll need silkworm food. Silkworms only eat the leaves of the mulberry tree or our prepared silkworm food, which is made from mulberry leaf powder and comes to you in a paste form. Store the food in the fridge and grate it over the silkworms when it's time to feed them. They should be fed at least once a day. Instructions included.

Please note- Our silkworms offered above come with enough silkworm food to last a week or so. If you will be keeping your silkworms longer than that or you want to grow them to a larger size, you'll need more silkworm food.


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Silkworm Food
1/2 lb - $7.50


Feeder Egg Case
You may have heard that praying mantises are cannibalistic. It's actually more like indiscriminant. The praying mantis nymphs actually make a superb food for your juvenile and adult, and you get lots of bang for the buck. Just put the egg case in your enclosure and it will hatch in a few weeks, providing hundreds of little snacks for your larger praying mantis(es). The "feeder" egg case is guaranteed to be a large ootheca.

Note: If the newly hatched nymphs are a bit too small for your adult mantis, just let them grow for a week or two.
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