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Submitting photos is a two step process. 1. Email high resolution photos to [email protected]. No watermarks, text or writing on any photographs (advertising). Include your forum username and the scientific name of the mantis in the email. 2. Upload copies of your entries here...

Smugmug rolled out a new look and feel to their website in the summer, and I finally got around to migrating my site. Here's a link if anyone is interested in seeing what I do part-time. http://twolfephotos.smugmug.com/ It's still a works in progress. I've been re-organizing my folders and...

Does anyone watch Criminal Minds nowadays? I record all of my favorite shows on the DVR and watch them at my convenience. I just watched the first episode of the new season, and there was a praying mantis in this episode. Here's a clip...

I have two fresh adult female Ghosts for sale. Both are brown. One molted two weeks ago, and the other molted last week. I also have a fresh adult female Stagmomantis carolina. Please contact me if interested. Thanks, Tammy

I decided to start a new thread to post my images of adults with L1 nymphs. Ghost Mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa), Adult female and L1 nymph Blepharopsis mendica, adult female with first instar nymph This adult female is taking a long time to turn green. I took this a few weeks ago. She is...

I was planning to head north today to photograph Sharp-tailed grouse early tomorrow morning, but over a foot of snow fell on the lek where they dance, and my friend, Bill, and I decided not to go. The grouse will have to wait until I get back from North Dakota for me to make them famous. (Ha...

Well, I dusted off my camera (literally as I used it in New Mexico last month) and photographed some of my mantids this past week. When I picked up one of the dead leaf mantids to photograph, he keeled over and played dead. I've never seen that before and had to laugh. I put it away and worked...

I know we have a few excellent macro photographers on the forum, but I thought I'd share a couple of links to some other insect macro work that I admire. Slovakian photographer Ondrej Pakan does some really nice work with insects with water droplets on them. I'm not sure how much if his work is...

I'm pleased we now have a forum for discussing insect photography. Please post your camera, lens, lighting, macro techniques and photo editing and stacking software questions here. All skill levels are welcome here. We have some members who are great photographers, and I'm hoping they will join...

I'm still enjoying the katydids. They make decent pets, though they are sometimes jumpy when you take them out of the terrarium. Here's a photo of one of the males.

Well, I hadn't photographed any of my mantises since July and decided to dust off my macro lens a couple of days ago. I received these mantises as extras as part of a trade. I only took a few photos of them, but I found out they make excellent models and am looking forward to photographing them...

Here are first instar nymphs I've photographed. Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii (Spiny Flower) Blepharopsis mendica (Devil's Flower or Thistle Mantis) Creobroter sp. Oxyopsis gracilis Hymenopus coronatus (Orchid) Parymenopus davisoni (Yellow Orchid) Oxyothespis dumonti (North African...

Mike and I just completed a swap of adult mantises. Through no fault of our own, both of our packages were delayed. Fortunately we had happy endings, and the mantises arrived alive. Mike promptly sent me the tracking number and put a lot of effort into packing. I wouldn't hesitate to do business...

I'm looking for one or two fresh adult male Orchids I have the following available for trade (US only): - Rhombodera cf stalii: fresh adult males and L2 nymphs - Rhombodera cf valida nymphs: limited # available after they molt to L2 - Phyllovates chlorophaea (Texas Unicorn): available after...

Here's a portrait of an adult female. I put her on a mullein plant and had no idea she was going to eat the flowers. That is pollen on her face. I'll try a different perch next time.

I've mentioned in the past that I started photographing wild mantises in Texas, found this forum and decided to buy some mantis to photograph them. Now that I'm breeding multiple species I find little time to photograph them. The last mantis I photographed was an L1 O. dumonti nymph on May 12...

I have some surplus Rhombodera cf. valida adult females (final molt 2 - 3 weeks ago) for sale/trade. These are from Precarious' stock, and they are much larger than my adult Rhombodera cf. stalii females. They should be ready for breeding soon. They also make great pets, but they eat a lot.

I've had a lot of ooths hatch lately. Caring for all the mantids takes so much time and leaves little for photography. I did manage to take photos a few times in February and again this month. Blepharopsis mendica, sub adult female...She's an adult now. So far, she is the only nymph that...

I've mostly been photographing nymphs lately but here's one of my female Budwing a few weeks before she died. And one of my Texas Unicorn nymphs that fell way behind its siblings and is still not an adult And one of my female Texas Unicorns laying her first ooth And finally a b. Mendica...

Here are my first instar nymphs I've photographed. Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii Blepharopsis mendica Creobroter sp. Phyllocrania paradoxa (Ghost) Idolomantis diabolica Phyllovates chlorophaea (Texas Unicorn Mantis) Oxyopsis gracilis Hymenopus coronatus (Orchid)...