When should our mantis eat?

[opal]

We recently got an African praying mantis and she had her final molt 3 days ago. She still has not eaten her crickets. When should we expect her to eat?
I wonder if we are doing something wrong. We even tried putting her in a small container with 3 crickets, yet she seems completely uninterested. At what point should we start to worry that she has not eaten?

 

[TheReptileShop]

You can offer them: Roaches, flies, feeder worms. I know a site that can help you out.

www.elytraandantenna.com They have a cool book on caring for mantids called "Praying Mantids: Keeping Aliens"

 

[Farom]

Its probably still too soon for her to eat. Give her a week or so, and she'll probably be chowin down again. Its nothing to worry about.

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Mithrandir]

Indeed, nothing to worry about, it's quite normal. What Sphodromantis species do you have (again I hate those common names...)?
Adult females Sphodromantis can take very very large prey (as big as itself). I feed mine adult crickets (also the black ones), adult and subadult locusts (Locusta migratoria) and B. dubia. Sphodromantis species are still the most aggressive mantids that I've seen (towards prey)

 

[subzero.xml]

patience is a vitue =)