How To Care For Baby Praying Mantis. The best food to feed a baby mantis is a fly. For that it is important to create a temperature gradient within the terrarium.
Approach slowly at first so you dont startle the mantis and brush the meat or water gently against its mouth. Mantids are small and do not produce much waste. These aside the stages in the life cycle of praying mantises are important factors to consider when caring for them.
Praying mantises drink a lot of water and it is crucial for their development.
Firstly it helps to retain warmth allowing the egg case to develop properly. You must be VERY careful when handling a baby mantis or any mantis in that matter. The first group should be kept at low rh 30 - 50 the second at a medium rh 50 - 70 and the third at a high rh 70 - 100. The enclosure of your mantis hardly needs any cleaning.