Recent content by Luke

I kept mine together for a while. I don't think cannibalism is a real worry with this species. The only problem is they will stress each other out and thus effect eating. Overall I found it easiest to keep them seperate.

Heres some blurry pictures of them mating!

Heres some more pictures. Never had this species before and after hearing about difficulties raising them was a bit concerned I'd be unsucessful. Thankfully I've managed to rear these two from L3 and just a couple of days ago they mated. Any tips for oothecae substrate? The females currently in...

I was taking these pictures on a bush in my garden when she randomly caught a nearby bee.

Not great quality but a good pose...

Ah good, I thought she was ok but I just had to clarify. I thought eyes going dark was sometimes a bad sign as I had a sphrodo who died soon after its eyes went very dark. Not a great foundation for this belief I know... :roll:

Just took a couple of photos of my idolos, Inicidentally as you can see this females eyes are quite dark pink, is that a sign of ill health (as in other species)? Its still catching food fine and seems quite active.. :?

timp, its a Gongylus gongylodes, also known as the wandering violin mantis or Indian rose mantis.

Heres a couple of my mantis photos The gongylus is eating a zebra spider which happened to run past whilst I was photographing it..

I've had them from the 4th instar I think they're both at their 7th now. Going to seperate them soon, so I can control food and temp individually, as I dont want the male to get to adulthood before the female..

Hello, Been finding this forum very useful and invaluable and thus I thought id join! Erm not too great at talking about myself but basically im a 21 yr old student currently studying medicine in London and ive been interested in inverts since I was very small. Im particularly interested in...