What Do Orchid Mantises Eat. Its diet consists of small insects including crickets flies fruit flies beetles and stinging insects such as bees. In the wild orchid mantis can kill prey as large as dipteran fly.
Its diet consists of small insects including crickets flies fruit flies beetles and stinging insects such as bees. It is advisable to also offer them flying insects in captivity. The captive specimens like to feed on lepidopteran prey.
It is advisable to also offer them flying insects in captivity.
Predators feeding on praying mantis include bats birds frogs monkeys snakes and spiders. Praying mantis predominantly feed on crickets grasshoppers spiders monarch butterflies beetles and occasionally other praying mantises. Some are cannibalistic eating their own siblings when one strays too close. The core of the livefood diet should be high in protien and relatively easy to digest.
