I got myself into trouble trying to add mantis to my backyard
I got a few egg cases off Amazon. I think they're Chinese. The instructions said to set them out at room temperature 4-6 weeks before the last frost.
well they just have been sitting out in the Amazon warehouse because not even a week later I have like a thousand babies. I know it's too cold for them right now but I tried to let them out with the hope a few would survive.
well they're pretty smart and only a few of them would leave. the rest just stayed in the enclosure until I felt bad and brought them back in.
I'm in a shitty situation. I took a really big plastic tote and made them a bigger enclosure. I've been feeding them fruit flies and they started molting a day after they hatched.
do you guys think they can survive together for a month with minimal cannibalization if I keep them really well fed? there are way too many of them to put them in separate enclosures.
what is the ethical thing to do here?