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UK, Leicestershire :)

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Ok. :) My friend was wondering what species it was and I'm not very good at 'normal looking' mantids. ;)

This is the only way I can get it to do a threat display, anyone else have any other ideas?

After a REALLY long wait, my female Dead Leaf Mantis has finally moulted to adult!!! Here's her first meal after the moult -

One of it's tarsi on it's right 'arm' hasn't grown back and is still a stump. But I'll just give it lots of nice twigs to grip on to. :) Photos will be up today/tomorrow! :D

GOOD NEWS!!! :clap: 2 days ago I managed to gently pick off about 80% of the fungus. (I think the fungus died?) Yesterday it looked like it was ready to moult so sprayed the enclosure floor to get the humidity up. In the evening I saw it half way through moulting and it looked great. This...

It may not have been as horrible as you think - 'Insects don't feel pain' - http://en.allexperts.com/q/Entomology-Study-Bugs-665/insects-feel-pain.htm

Good luck :)

I researched this in a school project once, very weird :)

Do you stack your images?

ok, i know what it is now. :) thx

I just uploaded this YouTube video, and I tried my best to correctly identify the bugs but I'm really not sure about some of them. Here's what I think they are (in order) Mint Leaf Beetle - Chrysolina herbacea - 5mm long Fire Bug - Corizus hyoscyami - 9mm long Pine Ladybird - Exochomus...

When your stacking, do you focus manually or with software/hardware? Thx

Welcome!!! :D

To be honest I can't remember, but it had been dead for a while. :(

Ok, I'll do that. I'll keep you posted. :)

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