What food do juvenile praying mantis eat, and what food do praying mantis eat?

Praying mantis does not eat grass and only eats a variety of small insects. Different species of praying mantis also eat different insects. For example, some praying mantis can't eat cicadas. Locusts can distinguish male and female from the size of the adult.

Praying mantis is a carnivore that mainly eats a variety of small insects, such as aphids, vegetable insects, cockroaches, fruit flies, mealworms, rice worms, etc.

Praying mantis is an invertebrate, carnivorous insect, life mantis is also a very common insect, it is easy to find its existence in the field, its most obvious feature is the top of the head two "big knife", looks very majestic, many children living in the countryside have no less catch praying mantis to play, the mimicry ability of the praying mantis is very strong, especially the turquoise mantis.

Praying mantis mainly feeds on insects, and the praying mantis can kill most of the small insects, many of which are pests, so the praying mantis is called the Yiran Song worm; The praying mantis is originally wild, although it itself is not very large, but it is a typical carnivorous animal, often they catch small insects that are a little smaller than themselves, such as some common flies, mosquitoes or some, moths, warm insects, larval dandan, etc., that is, larger adult cicadas, these are the objects they catch.

Predatory behavior of praying mantises

Praying mantis has a wide range of feeding habits, and can prey on most insects except some Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, such as lepidopteran larvae and adults, Hemiptera leafhoppers, etc.; The praying mantis likes to catch moving objects, and when it catches it, it bites and eats it all, and if it is a meaty food, it eats it all, and if it is not a meaty food, the praying mantis puts it down.

In different praying mantis groups, the predation strategy has a high diversity, which can be roughly divided into three types: "safari", "ambush" and "mixed", and the predation mechanism of the hunting mantis is manifested as taking the initiative to find food, and the nature is more ferocious, and some of these groups can even prey on small rodents and reptiles.

The ambush mantis mainly camouflages in a mimicry state, and when the prey approaches, it uses its excellent camouflage ability to launch a capture when the prey has not yet been discovered. The mixed praying mantis takes into account the habits of the first two and implements a variety of predation strategies, and due to the different living environments and predation strategies, the praying mantis shows extremely high morphological diversity.

Praying mantis has a cannibalistic habit, and the phenomenon of "wife and husband" often occurs between male and female adults; Cannibalism occurs between the same sex and the opposite sex, and the active praying mantis is easy to be eaten by the relatively static praying mantis.

Praying mantis mainly eats all kinds of small insects.

For example, aphids, fruit flies, vegetable insects, cockroaches, etc., mealworms, rice worms can be used as the main feed for home praying mantises.

The lifespan of a praying mantis is only about 6 to 8 months, and if you want to have more than one praying mantis, you can let it mate 1 15 days after it emerges into an adult.

Praying mantis mainly eats all kinds of small insects, such as:

1.Aphids, fruit flies, vegetable insects, cockroaches, etc.

2.Praying mantis can also eat mealworms, rice worms, etc., which can be used as the main feed for domestic praying mantises.

3.Praying mantis also likes to eat a variety of large and medium-sized insects, such as flies, mosquitoes, locusts, moths, butterflies, chiro, crickets, grasshoppers, ground tigers, spiders, and the pupal eggs of these small insects.

Praying mantis has a mixed diet, so there are many foods that can be eaten, but try not to feed the praying mantis to eat the same kind of food.

1. The praying mantis is a carnivorous insect that hunts all kinds of insects and small animals, and can eliminate many pests in the field and forest lead trembling area, so it is a beneficial insect. Liquid hopper.

2. Praying mantis does not eat vegetarian trouble, only eats meat, and does not seem to be picky eaters for eating meat bees, in nature they can eat as many as forty or fifty kinds of food, similar to flies, mosquitoes, bee insects, oh seeds, butterflies, knowing, shimmering, ants, ground tigers, spiders and the eggs of these small insects, and for the good insects on the crops in the field, snails, cabbage, soil yuan, mealworms, bread worms, etc., they love to eat, mercilessly, and often go to the woods to eliminate these pests.