Praying mantises can eat various insects, including aphids, cabbage worms, and small cockroaches. When food is scarce, they will even eat their own kind. Generally, a praying mantis's lifespan is only 6-8 months, but under favorable conditions, it may live for more than a year.
Food for the little mantis
Praying mantises eat small insects, such as aphids, fruit flies, cabbage worms, and small cockroaches. They can also be fed mealworms; rice weevils found in rice and flour at home can also be used to feed them.
Praying mantises have a lifespan of only about 6 to 8 months, which is very short compared to other animals. When food is scarce, they will even eat their own kind.
With good husbandry conditions, it can live for more than a year. If you want to have several mantises, you can consider letting them mate and reproduce; they will lay eggs in about two to three weeks.
