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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...

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...

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...

A friend of mine lent me their old Olympus E-P2, and so I'm kinda excited to see how a real camera works. It only came with a pretty standard lens, but up until now, I've only had my little samsung galaxy note 2 phone to take photos with. So needless to say, I'm pretty thankful for the upgrade...

Here's an interesting thing: In two of my heirodula girls, and in one of my tenodera males, I've observed a strange behavior where they appear to lose control of their head movements. Their mouths start motoring, antennae flail, and their head shakes and twitches in a manner idendical to what...

So, more than anything, I really want a pair of Ghosts... But I live in Thailand, and there is literally no trade here for mantises. I mean, I'm pretty spoiled with the number of local species I can get here, but of course I gotta want what I can't have, sigh! I guess, what I'm wondering...

The oldest, largest female from my recent generation of Hierodula has molted to adult!! She's came out looking pretty grey, with some nice mottled brown/green wings! I don't know if these are her final colors, of if she'll slowly darken up to a proper brown over the next little while...

I woke up this morning to find my favorite 'pede, Hypatia, dead. And I suspect it was a murder. She wasn't just dead, you see. The exoskeleton around her head was cracked right open, and she was almost completely decapitated. Could it have been that one of the males were too rough with her...

So, one of my Hierodula girls developed a dark blemish on her eye that I've seen a couple times on this forum before. I only noticed it two-three days ago, and it was pretty small. It didn't grow bigger over the next day or two. I figured that it's probably not an infection, and since she was...

I got a tattoo I've been planning for a year to get! As you can see, I had the time of my life: But the tattoo looks fabulous!!: My husband designed it, and the tattoo artist who put it in my flesh was fabulousss. He got it done in about two hours (!!) and the place was mega impressive...

So, a few weeks back, my very sweet and mega thoughtful housekeeper (who doesn't speak a lick of english; and I still don't know enough thai to hold a functional conversation with) dropped off these very fat, green caterpillars on my doorstep one day. She knows I raise insects (she's brave...

Today is baby day, apparently. I have found two very young nymphs (L1 or L2) of, what I think, are two different species. I'm looking for second opinions. This one, I found in my front garden today. I believe it is a Hierodula nymph: And this one, I initially thought might have been...

I have no idea what species they are, but I always come across them during my early morning walks, and have always enjoy lovingly harassing them on my way by (read: moving them from the side walk to under the bushes so that they don't get stepped on or baked)! And so, I finally caved in and...

Alternatively, Acromantis formosana?? Not sure which this is--being in thailand, I'd like to think it's a thai boxer hehe. Google searches come up pretty anemic on the behavior, care, diet, etc for these little dudes... Here's the one I found: I found her in a flower bed while I was...

I made a blog for my ca--er--mantids... Does anyone else have a blog or website etc--especially of the social networking variety--where you share photos and stories of your out-of-control mantis hobby? if so, can we see 'em?

Not a photo, but I've been designing fictional mantids based on real mantids. I had a lot of fun with these ones, and I'll probably do more :> You guys like mantids, so I figured I'd share them here Maybe you can guess which species they're based on!

I came across a rather large female this afternoon! Her body, not including legs and antennae, was about 1.5". She's a southeast asian species (found in thailand). Does anyone recognize her? I thought she was very pretty :>

Well, I've recently come across an enormous wealth of asian ant mantis (Odontomantis sp.) on the hedges lining the parking lot of a golf course that my in-laws own! I've been spending several afternoons observing them this week, and decided to take home two subadults. They're an aggressive...

So someone decided a window of my mother-in-law's house would be a perfect place to raise offspring. What I want to know is, which species is responsible for this? It's quite small, but not nearly small enough to be from a species as tiny as the Amantis sp. I've been seeing around these...