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    My photo in the Daily Dozen.

    Thanks for looking, to anyone who looks. :D
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    My photo in the Daily Dozen.

    Thank You!
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    My photo in the Daily Dozen.

    It is the first one I uploaded to the site. I feel lucky. 5th photo down, Daughter and spider. http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/daily-dozen/
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    How to piss a praying mantis - video

    The finger seems to work better than the tweezers. Most of my mantids only display when I am not trying to piss them off. They just look at my hand when I taunt them. :innocent:
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    Tragedy

    A large mantis needs some time to harden their exoskeleton enough to eat something with a hard exoskeleton. I give them more than a day to prevent them from possibly injuring their mouths. Handling can cause problems for the teneral mantis as well. When a female Chinese mantis is ready, they...
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    I Love Mantis

    Welcome. Great mantids and photos!
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    Macro in LOVE 1...by Koolkoksoong

    Very nice!
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    How exactly do you tell the gender of a mantis?

    The abdomen on a mantis looks like their butt or tail. The legs are connected with the thorax. I look at the tip of the abdomen when sexing mantids. The link in post #2 is very descriptive.
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    Brunneria borealis - The White Lady... Albino or Color Morph?

    Lookslike Thesprotia sp. I don't read any language but english, but the word Thesprotia stood out to me as I scanned the text under the photos. Edit: Looking closer, agent A has a point. Unless I could read the article, I know next to nothing. :blush:
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    Mantis' eyes suddenly black??

    It is normal for mantids' eyes to darken in low light conditions. The eyes don't seem to change as fast as a human's do when our pupils react to different lighting conditions. Sounds completely normal.
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    Mantis Dying Of Old Age: When's the Right Time?

    Appetite is a deciding factor for me, as well.
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    Surprise Molt!

    For certain species, this is the way it goes for me as well.
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    Tragedy

    I can agree to that. When they look like little pillows and lift away from the thorax, ecdysis will happen soon...
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    Trained

    When they realize that mealworms are edible, you will just be able to drop them in. I like to use a shoebox size sterilite, put in the mantis, and drop the feeder in, if their home container allows crawlers to hide. It is not too much work if you only have a few mantids. It gets really tedious...
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    Mantis Behavior

    They just want to climb. It is pretty cute when they do that.
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