How do you keep a praying mantis?

Answer 1

Most of the time a mantis is kept in a box three times the size of the adults size. A soft inlay will keep the mantis from breaking any exoskeleton (or however it is named) after shedding skin. They need a branch that is bent because they love to hang upside down. Most of the times lamps are used to keep the box warm. But the lamp needs a screen around it to protect the mantis from burning itself. Humidity-levels differ depending on species.

As a nymph they mostly eat fruit flies of mini crickets. As an adult they eat mostly roaches and grasshoppers of adult crickets. But flies, butterflies, moths, some caterpillars and other mantises will do fine too.