The Praying Mantis is a rare Mythical-tier pet in Roblox Grow a Garden. It hatches from a particular egg and offers a mutation boost ability that helps increase the variety and value of your crops. Although it only has a small chance to appear when the egg hatches, its effect can be a game-changer for players focused on getting high-value or rare fruits. Here’s everything you need to know about this animal.
How to Obtain a Praying Mantis
To acquire a Praying Mantis, you first need to obtain a Bug Egg. The Bug Egg is sold at Raphael’s Pet Egg stand beside the Gear Shop and although the shop refreshes its stock every thirty minutes, only three percent of those rotations include the Bug Egg. So it’s important to be able to afford the egg (by farming a lot of Sheckles beforehand) whenever it shows up.
It’s a pricey egg—it costs 50 million sheckles or can be purchased for Robux in the premium shop. After you secure the Bug Egg, place it in an empty plot in your garden and wait eight hours for it to hatch. When the hatch completes, you have a four percent chance of receiving a Praying Mantis. So, at this point, it’s a matter of luck. If you have farmed a 100M+ Sheckles already, you can keep buying Bug Eggs whenever they are visible to have multiple higher tier pets on your garden.
Praying Mantis Ability
Once hatched, the Praying Mantis uses its passive ability approximately every 80 seconds. During its activation, it enters a “praying” state for 10 seconds. While praying, all crops within a ten-stud radius receive a 1.5 times boost to their mutation chance. This applies to every type of mutation from basic size increases to rare gold and rainbow fruit variants. So, when you place the pet near high-value crops or those plants that you want to be mutated, you are bound to get significant boosts in income.
Since the hatching time is long, set up the egg for hatching when you’re about to go offline and it should be ready when you’re back the next time. This will help you get the benefits of its mutation boosts instantly.
Combining with Other Pets
Since 3 pets are allowed in your garden, you can increase your garden’s value by combining the Praying Mantis with pets that duplicate or speed up growth. For example, placing a Giant Ant nearby will give you chances to duplicate harvested fruits, while a Caterpillar can accelerate plant growth. This combination of mutation boosts, duplication, and faster growth creates combined effects that can greatly increase both the quantity and quality of your harvest.
This was everything you needed to know to get started with high-tier pet animals like Praying Mantis in Roblox Grow a Garden. If you’re still building up the Sheckles count, you can go for eggs of lesser rarity and use this Pets Tier list to know which pet animals will be most beneficial for your garden.