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Mantids

  • 04-04-2006 12:37PM
    #1
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭


    Ive always had an interest in these creatures. But they dont exist in Ireland, do they? Could someone help?


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  • #2
    Banphrionsa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭Banphrionsa


    Loaf sized bread crumb.


  • #3
    Blub2k4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    Banphrionsa wrote:
    Loaf sized bread crumb.


    Are you sure you didn't mean to post in the surrealists forum?


  • #4
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Thats about as surreal a post as they come.


  • #5
    Shelli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Shelli


    My boyfriends used to keep them, ill ask him where he got his, but your best bet would be to try places that sell reptiles, arachnids and exotics, they could probably order them in for you even if they had none in stock.


  • #6
    tonym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭tonym


    www.bugsdirectuk.com theydo them and will post them to u


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  • #7
    andy1249
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭andy1249


    Dublin city centre , there is a shop called Reptile haven just down from christchurch! They have em.


  • #8
    tonym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭tonym


    thats righ andy ben is great in there he will piont u in the right direction


  • #9
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Thanks for the help people. Though, this poses the question of just getting a female or a male to keep her company. Would it be crude to buy a male also? I know they often end up as dessert.


  • #10
    tonym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭tonym


    dont know alot about them but if they are anything like spiders then just get one cos as soon as a spider mates the female eats the male


  • #11
    Banphrionsa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭Banphrionsa


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:
    Thanks for the help people. Though, this poses the question of just getting a female or a male to keep her company. Would it be crude to buy a male also? I know they often end up as dessert.

    More precisely, don't they lose their heads?


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  • #12
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Its true. Ive seen it in nature documentaries. The male usually continues with the mating though. Rather gruesome.

    Males of many species often lose their heads when it comes to females.


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