Recent content by TheBeesKnees

I've got me an adult Rhombo now! She molted beautifully and she's the biggest mantis I've ever had! She's about five inches, and weighs more than an insect has any right to weigh! She's grown into a really sweet personality, too! Which is amazing considering she was such a punchy jerk...

Turns out these guys are everywhere around here! The adults are just mega hard to come by. I found this little nerd on some shrubs near a parking lot: looked pretty hungry with that twiggy little booty, and is the same size/instar as my other broodlings--so I took it home :] No lack of...

Yeah, mine too (though she's not the most observant, once she sees a prey item, it's a gonner). When I said "not very aggressive" I meant in terms of temper. She gets very cranky at me, and will threat display more than I've ever seen from any other species--but she'll never actually attempt an...

Gorgeous! I wound up with a lady of this species, too. I picked her off a hedge around a parking lot that housed several other nymphs (who all turned out to be heirodula sp, except her)! I obtained mine as an L1, she's sub now and she's bigger than all my adult Hierodula sp already o___o...

So, a few months ago, I had found a wild Hyllus diardi/"heavy jumper" in a rubber plantation, and took her home. She promptly spun herself into a cocoon and died a few weeks later, much to my dismay. I wasn't sure what I did wrong, and for that reason, I was pretty certain I wanted to just...

Thanks, bros! These guys are about 8" in length, and are really all over the place during the rainy season here in Thailand. When I go for my walks early in the morning, I have to watch where I'm stepping so that I don't crush any along the way (kinda like earthworms after a rain, right?)...

I just wanted to post an update about these babies! Three of them wound up being some manner of Heirodula sp: two females, one male. I kept the male, and released the other two girls, since they all appear to be the very same species as my other girls (despite looking very different as L1/L2...

I got a very stylistic one a while back :D No regrets! These were taken literally the moment I got off the chair from getting it done haha! It's not red and scary anymore. The style of this one matches a bee tattoo I have on my thigh :> One day, I'm gonna be covered in stylistic little...

9/10, the stagmomantis one threw me, also! Damn you, subtle american species!

aayyyy my crippled subadult molted successfully! This was the first time I've been able to observe a mantis regenerate a limb, too. It's rather incredible how they basically regenerate the whole limb in a single molt--it's just slightly smaller than the other legs, but fully formed and...

A mega thanks to Precarious for telling me these spiders exist. I'm ecstatic to have found one of these beauties in the wild. I wasn't even looking for one, but the moment I spotted her, the species was unmistakable. These are truly amazing creatures to behold; I've never seen a jumping spider...

I love jumping spiders, but I've never gone out of my way to catch and document the variety I've found on the island. Today, I found a rather large (as far as jumpers go) male, and I couldn't help myself. I snatched him up, took him home, took a few quick shots of him, and the rewarded him with...

my thoughts, exactly. :lol:

hehe thanks a ton, guys!! Here are the mantis drawings for my top tier patreon subscribers this month!: I have too much fun drawing fictional mantises ; A; <3

Back in February, I had come across the glimpse of a mantis on the trunk of an old rubber tree. It was in my sights for about a fraction of a second before it darted off, never to be seen again. Cut to yesterday; I finally decided to go out an find myself one of these elusive mantises. I...