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Haha, I'll have to have my friends take him, as I only have the vaguest sense of bars around here! (Friday and Saturday night are for homework, not drinking! ;) ) Thanks for the great visual image of one of my roommates dancing with Siri perched on her wrist...

Wow, very nice! And what excellent camouflage! I bet you couldn't take your eye off him while he was on the bark, for fear of losing him completely!

Although buying them to burglarize someone is probably considered less strange than raising mantids by the general populace. :lol: People have some surprised reactions when I tell them about this hobby...

Really, they all get that ruffle? I had no idea, thanks! I took him out last night in the Siri-proofed bathroom and of course, he was content to "lay down" on my hand and just chill pretty much the entire time. I figure now he'll only start flying when I'm not prepared for it, because that's...

Jeez, Digger! How do you do it? (Aside from apparently buying Tupperware and pantyhose in bulk, that is...) I think the stress about having enough food for them all would send me over the edge. Yeah, I remember that. :D

Hey, whatever works, right? :D And that's the basis for some human couples I know as well... :lol: Just kidding...

Hurrah! That's always exciting. :D

Didn't see this before posting in your other thread (it was marked as read for some reason...) Glad you got him back! :D That's really cool that he went straight home, haha!

Best vacation ever! ;) Hear that, past vacations? We had some fun times but you're not good enough anymore! Bring me an ooth or a mantis, then we'll talk...

Oh, so he came back? (Or are you referring to the first time you two met? ;) )

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I was wondering, but had thought they only got that way in response to females calling. Guess not. :rolleyes: Will he calm down in a week or so or do they stay frisky for the rest of their lives? I'm not going to mate him: don't have a female, nor do I want to...

My adult boy, Siri, has been very calm up until this point, sitting on my hand and going with me everywhere around the apartment without even a wing flick. This last Monday he took his first short flight, from my hand to my chest. Since then, he's been extremely restless in his Kritter Keeper...

That is a lot of little ones! Congrats on you're high survival rate. :D

Odd: I got this same question today during a field trip after I was talking about how surprised/freaked out I was by my male's first flight. I came to about the same conclusion so it is interesting to see the discussion was occurring here at about the same time...

That's crazy, to just randomly find one in a parking lot like that! Way to go! :) Hope it hatches for you and you get lots of little mantis-lets!

I remember the flimsy, make-your-writing-wonky-because-they're-under-your-paper rulers... I miss getting planners for free now: so expensive! (Says the girl who pays double digits for tiny mantids... :rolleyes: ) Yeah, it's a problem for sure... getting to the point where you can't go to any...

I don't have anything to add identification-wise, but I just wanted to say: very pretty wing patterns. (And I wish pet stores here sold mantids!)

Haha, I like the title. Sorry about your boys...

Knotweed; I believe Japanese knotweed. Invasive species. Beautiful plant, but it crowds out natives and destabilizes river banks (often found in riparian areas, but in disturbed areas also.) It was introduced as an ornamental screen/shrub from Asia, but it quickly escaped. It is extremely...

Shoot! Sorry to hear about that!