Went out today. Tons of pics.

Found quite a few carolina mantids, one brunners mantis, some ooths, and some other surprises. No carolina mantids anywhere here but under the bridges.

The area:











Bird Grasshopper

Spider egg sac. These were everywhere.

First mantis. Female carolina:



caterpillar





Immature mantis. Odd this time of year. Found two of these.

Mantis and her ooth







Deformed ooth

Hatched:



Another one hatched:



Peeking at me:

Another female nearby:



Green female:



I spy a mantis butt:



What happened here?!

See it? Not a mantis:





Smooth Green Snake! These are arboreal and eat insects:







Ooth:

Brunners mantis:







Flowers in the middle of the open:



Tree Frog:



Another smooth green snake! These are hard to find let alone finding two in a day:

Nice pics and nice watch! Hey in that first mantis pic I don't see the mantis, and I don't see the mantis butt. Also, that katydid that you saw on the bridge, was that the same one as the one in the spider web?

hey you found a green treefrog! Sorry bout this post but I didn't see the frog pic at first. My computer isn't really loading that fast. Anyway you're fnding mantids but here in CT it's getting cold! All my lunas are cocoons now.

agent A said:

hey you found a green treefrog! Sorry bout this post but I didn't see the frog pic at first. My computer isn't really loading that fast. Anyway you're fnding mantids but here in CT it's getting cold! All my lunas are cocoons now.

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89 degrees here this week. Won't be cold for awhile. You see I am still finding immature mantids. That was not the same katydid that was on the pillar. I found probably 50 of those big spiders and probably twice that many of their giant egg sacs. You're blind if you don't see that female mantids butt.

Rick, nice pics, as for the green snakes, do you keep them? I find it very interesting that you said they're hard to find I've seen em everywhere on the east coast, and at specialty reptile stores they sell em for 5.99 each (even here in CO). Nonetheless very beautiful snakes. As for the brunners mantis, can you find em in CO? They're pretty cool lol.

I love the "peeking at me" photos!! I saw the butt.... and the black butted one, hmmm. Was it still alive, or did it seem on it's "last leg?" Just wondering with that degree of injury/sickness. And in the one pic, I believe I saw a walking stick. Nice pics. Looks like you had a good day!

I've got a series like this when I went mantid hunting recently... will have to post my pics also.

lemmiwinks said:

Rick, nice pics, as for the green snakes, do you keep them? I find it very interesting that you said they're hard to find I've seen em everywhere on the east coast, and at specialty reptile stores they sell em for 5.99 each (even here in CO). Nonetheless very beautiful snakes. As for the brunners mantis, can you find em in CO? They're pretty cool lol.

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I've only found one before. They are known to be hard to find since they live in trees. You may have found something else like a garter snake. No brunners in Co. They are found from NC on down. Florida and the southeast. Probably some in other southern states too I would imagine.

Katnapper said:

I love the "peeking at me" photos!! I saw the butt.... and the black butted one, hmmm. Was it still alive, or did it seem on it's "last leg?" Just wondering with that degree of injury/sickness. And in the one pic, I believe I saw a walking stick. Nice pics. Looks like you had a good day! I've got a series like this when I went mantid hunting recently... will have to post my pics also.

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It was dead but was still hanging in the foliage. Looked like something ripped its abdomen open. No walking sticks unless I took a pic of one and didn't even see it. There must be something else in the photo I was looking at. Which pic?

Thanks for taking the time to share. Very interesting and educational. Love the peeking pics too.

look at you all brave with 1000's of what looks like deadly spiders everywhere lol. After the 3rd one i woulda told myself, maybe this is a dangerous place to look lol, but not you ^_^ .

d17oug18 said:

look at you all brave with 1000's of what looks like deadly spiders everywhere lol. After the 3rd one i woulda told myself, maybe this is a dangerous place to look lol, but not you ^_^ .

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They were everywhere but they don't bother me.

No walking sticks unless I took a pic of one and didn't even see it. There must be something else in the photo I was looking at. Which pic?

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This one... I was guessing a walking stick in the middle there.... that's the only thing I could possibly think or see that it might be. But now I think it's just a stem/stick. So what was it?

no I think there's a snake in there somewhere. hey did you see my pictures? go to that topic Agent A's Pics and tell me what you think!