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yep this is an arizona ground mantis yersinops. here a web page where theres info along with pics about them! http://www.bugsincyberspace.com/yersiniops.html theres two types of yersinopes also as it says. and they seem to be like a grass hoper mantis with slightly larger and longer backlegs to...

thats a european mantis! :D (mantis Religiosa)

WOW! Nice photos! the mantis looks just like a sketch or painting with those nice colors!

oh yea and heres some pics of my ground mantis :D i dont have any pics of the ooths yet tho.

the overintering process i do is usually stick a sewing needing on the base of the ooth and then pin it up under any area of my house that has some cover to it. like under one of the side house boards if they over lap. but a sewing needle may be too big for the ground mantid ooth and it looks...

hey! very nice pics! one thing tho when trying to hatch one, i try hatching a fertile ooth of this mantis and it never hatched, in fact all 5 didnt hatch! either they were infertile or maybe needed over wintering :( i'd try overwintering one and incubation the other rite away cause they may...

hey thats cool! Congrats! my female Litaneutria minor just laid her second one also must be a coincidence! lol. do you have them around where u live? i had to go out several hundred miles to find mine. can hardly wait to see the pics! ;)

thanks! i used a canon powershot SD450. and i used 6 different males to get the max amout of new blood possible. hopefully they start laying ooths soon! they all are fat to bursting lol.

wow! now thats cool. looks like a fighter jet lol.

hey thanks yen! and yea i'll try to get dead leaf species again, i hope! if people have it for sale in the US. And the netting i use for the lids, i cut from a big roll of window screening u can get from home depot or any home supply store. it makes great ventilation and gives the mantid...

Thanks! thats what i love about these mantids they readily pose for the camera. all of them struck me during the process of taking there pictures and one of them managed to get a good hit on me under my finger nail. Joe

In that case more pictures of emerald lol :D

Hey everyone! its been a long time since i kept mantids for a while but now i'm back, sorta, with only one species, but they're one badass species though. They readily do a defensive pose and hiss loudly by rubbing their abdomen against their wings. Here are some photos of them along with their...

just recieved my package of giant asian mantids all were healthy looking and readily eat when ever given a chance:) and they've even molted a day leter to L3! Thanks Jon! will definitly do more business with you! Joe

i've kept about 20 or more species and my personal favorites are the deroplatys desiccata and european mantids. desiccata are pretty hard to keep to me but are pretty awesome when it comes to looks and behavior. the european mantids have a great presonality and are pretty tough for a common...

now thats a tough looking mantis! let us all know if anyones keeping them! :D Joe

congrats yen!! :D good luck on hatching and raising them!! Joe

amazing! i fed one of my large mantids a large hawk moth about 4 inches long and forgot to cuts its wings. the mantids went through with the beating but it stayed very weak for a few days. what kind of moth was that anyways? Joe

this is not my video put i thought it was pretty cool! someone's gotta do something like this but with mantis vs. scorpion or something so it would be realistic and a lot cooler so we dont have animals harmed. Joe

wow i would think the stinger would get stuck in its mouth! some one should try feeding a mantis a tarantula lol now that would be a showdown Joe