mantis egg sack
Male Praying Mantis
Female praying mantis
there is a difference
aquarium for hatchlings
fly fruit flies,first food
baby/young crickets (later along the line)
Step 1: The Egg Case
There are usually 10-400 eggs in the ootheca (egg case)
and they are very small. When they hatch they need food small enough to catch and eat, as with baby clownfish, food is needed to be smaller and the size where it can be eaten. The flies would be added in a test tube catch's worth to a quart container of a few babies.
Step 2: Hatchlings
Gently move the babies to a container large enough for them all, or several small containers. Then make sure to have an air hole, and a moist cotton ball down in there, so they can molt properly. You will have milions of babies. Feed them 5 or so per baby mantid a day.Make sure there aren't any puddles of water as they will drown in them. They need vertical things like sticks and such to help with their molt, because they use gravity to help pull them out.If they gnaw at your finger, they are thirsty.........When they are going to molt they won't eat and dead skins will be around the tank.
-In first grade a friend brought in a egg case and it hatched during the night. That day there were mantids everywhere. Even in our desks and tables!