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Summary: Praying mantises are predators that don't need to be fed, but can be provided with active prey items. Find out how to aid a praying mantis in locating prey with information from an entomologist in this free video on the praying mantis life cycle.
Mike Quinn has a Master of Science degree in entomology from Texas A&M University. Quinn was the invertebrate biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife for eight years, where he took the...read more
"I'm Mike Quinn. Been an entomologist for twenty years. And we're here at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, talking about how to feed a praying mantis. They are predators and they feed on other insects and they generally in the wild, they'll generally stake out a flower and then feed on insects that come in. If you have a praying mantis in an indoor situation, you can put it in a small container and active prey items, like crickets that jump around will get the praying mantis' attention. And they can actually, if it's a female and she's making a egg case, she can eat over a dozen crickets in a day. But you don't need near that many for a normal part of the life cycle. But putting her in with a small, in a small container where she can find, he or she can find the prey helps her. And so those are some of the tips on how to feed praying mantises."
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