On Wednesday I discovered that the container that contains both eggsacks, had another hatching. Then I saw it... I saw the container was partially unzipped... with a decent ammount of mantids outside of it. I released the ones inside, and rounded up all the ones I could. I left 10 inside, fed them along with the last three!
6 out of those 8 are now dead (1st container) so I added two. yesterday I added another. So there's now a total of 5 alive in that container, with 6 dead. Out of the original 7, 5 died (the 8th one I added died sometime yesterday or later on Wednesday. Those 5 that remain look vary good. The three I added were ones I found outside on the wall of our garage. I even nicknamed those 5 (I had nicknamed the 8th one that died, sticki).
Shorte- Named such for the fact his antennas had both seem to been broken off to half of their normal length. [one of the two added wednesday]
Swift- A bundle of energy, moves much more then the others. Very energetic, but could be bad if he's ever short of food. [one of the two added wednesday]
Mini- both antennas are the same length as Shorte's shortest one (one of Shorte's is noticably shorter then the other) [the one added yesterday] (I may change his name)
Mystery- A strange little guy, on Tuesday (or was it Wednesday) he would catch a bug, but then released it, without eating it. I obserbed him do this at least 3 times. His sticky pads that extend past a mantid's claws seemed to me stuck up into his claw. But that's fixed now. So strange... one of the two of the original 7
Pheonix- a firery tempered Mantid. Only one other Mantid I ever had can rival his temperment. He caught one bug, after eating one, saw a bigger bug, caught it and "attempted" to eat it. The big bug was too much, and he became full and dropped it.
