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Yeah just did it with paint in windows Before: After

After mating he must have been happy because he did this on my hand (cut my fingers off with paint) I have a nasty cut on my finger did not want to show this in big but i like the pic. Sadly i never get thread poses from my mantids so i am verry happy he made me have this nice shot of him at...

Luke i was thinking the same of Mantis religiosa, in Spain they have a white spot on the inside of the fore arms and the french one has a black dot but the rest is the same. regards Dave

Maybe because you have a big shipping port they may have been brought there by containerships. Here in the port of antwerp they have found several species of not native spiders surviving the not so cold winters we have had the last years exept.this year it has been cold like normal . A...

Nice colors is it a 1st instar?

Sadly it seems that nobody likes to change species annymore. Only selling at max prices??? You are doing a good job Luke

Nice pics!!! Lucky people who can observate them in the wild wish i was that lucky too :D

Nice pics

Amazing story. How much of them stayed in the Ooth? Or did they all get out? regards Dave

From Belgium sometimes they have em but verry rare. And mostly wildcought in Tanzania.

This species for me is the one that i like watching most because they are such active hunters the sneak on prey like a lion dus. And the wide variation of colors they can have is also beatyfull

Ok i learned something new again :D Good luck breeding them luke looks like youre doing a good job sofar

Ok i wont,lol If they know you. They dont want to get of youre hand, and if you put them annywhere and later you reach youre hand to them and they climb on it and relax start washing. Try this with a wild mantis!!! or even anny other insect ! ! Therefore this must be an intelligent animal...

2 a clock in the night but its weekend here also lol

L2 nimph My own bred adult male My own bred Adult female

Ooth hatching L1 nimphs for these photo's i used Nikon D60 with macro +10 L2 nimph L5 nimphs with +2 macro lens

They have a nice color i have seen them in brown but not in white i think good job.

Wow christian you are realy a mantis expert i am amazed i would have gone with the cheetos lol

With me the same because i have put the male about 30cm from the female in the enclosure female after i looked the male was being eten and the female was at the same place maybe she had allready mated before because they were bought as wildcatched in the reptile store Sorry about youre loss...