I was doing some research on mantids and it seems they only live for less then a year. I have always wanted to get into the invertebrate part of the hobby and wanted to see if there is any "long term" mantids. Thanks!
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Longest lived species of mantid
blueta
Oct 12, 2005 06:12 PM
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Idznak
Oct 28, 2005 10:57 PM
hey,
ghost mantids r usually one of the longest lived mantids, but i also found out any mantis can be long live also, i had a european mantis live almost 2 years!, and my violing mantis i have now is about 2 years old right now and shows no sign of ddying!
Joe
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phwyvern
Oct 30, 2005 06:38 PM
>>hey,
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>>ghost mantids r usually one of the longest lived mantids, but i also found out any mantis can be long live also, i had a european mantis live almost 2 years!, and my violing mantis i have now is about 2 years old right now and shows no sign of ddying!
I had an asian deadleaf make it 2.5 years.
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