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thanks! i could have set it up better for pics and videos but i'd just decided spare of the moment to chuck it in...

hi welcome to the forum! it's a friendly place here, unlike most forums where all they do is rip on each other. whereabouts in uk are you? there's quite a few of us in the uk. there's a few bugshows on throughout the year that are worth checking out too. i thought this post was about an album...

yeah, it was a calculated thing. the gong had absolutely no strength left, couldnt hold it's body up anymore. i guess the biggest risk was if there was something wrong with it that would be passed on to the orchid. you can see in the pic that the gongs got it's front leg over the orchids wing...

a female Hymenopus coronatus that Rob byatt gave me transforming into an adult: also, my adult male Gongylus gongylodes was seriously on his last legs so i decided to serve him up to the Orchid:

a mantis vid of mine's just got featured as the 2nd vid on YouTube's homepage! crazy!! i think it means i'll get around a million views or something. i'm trying to think of a way to expoit it, i'm in a band and it's a good way of advertising the link... http://youtube.com/...

wow that's quite an intense pink on the orchid. if it's not humidity maybe it's just that it's from a batch that turns more pink than most? though strange that the wahlbergii would go pink too (tho i read they sometimes go by visual cues for colour changing). or perhaps when they are sprayed the...

this has happened to me a few times ( just the other night i walked into my living room to find an adult gongylus gongylodes flying around!). if the nettings not tight and secure they seem to push at it (trying to get higher perhaps). from there they even seem to be able to find their way out...

also, make sure it's got room to shed it's skin, it'll need 3 times it's own height to dangle from

ace pics. the little red nymph pics very clear seeings how tiny they are

very sad. he was intense. he did an amazing amount of stuff in his life, and all good! he did always seem to want to push to the boundaries of the safety zone with dangerous animals ( but i guess some of that comes with the kinds of jobs he did). died in a legendary way. his poor kids and...

one of my Phyllocrania paradoxa died after eating a big furry moth

my male Deroplatys lobata flew around my room when there was loads of people here, everyone dived out through the door. it was great :lol: my male Hymenopus coronatus likes flying from one of my hands to the other, not gone far though. do mantids ever fly long distances?

i've noticed a gradual colour change in Orchid mantids too, usually starting on the little leg plates. i've noticed my ghosts changing quite quickly in shade too

thanks, i was starting to think they didnt have them. yeah they are some of the best insect photos i've ever seen

my male orchid's just turned adult today and my female has just turned sub-adult today. i'm just wondering how long do male orchids live as an adult? am i likely to be able to mate them?

i'm just designing my band a new logo, i'm thinking i wanna have some kind of insect wings behind the writing. i was just wondering if anyone knows of a good site with detailed drawings of insect wings on? here's a few logos i've done upto now with the only pic i've got of a wing:

cool ,thanks. i still cant see them though, they must be totally invisible with this species

yeah, i know that's the case with other species. where's the extra eyes on Phyllocrania paradoxa ?

i assumed it was genetics with this species, but more of a random sequence of shades to give the offspring a better chance of survival overall ? has anyone seen lots of the same colour African Mantids in the same places in the wild? or has anyone seen one change colour over a few moults?

for about 4 months i've been feeding my mantids just on inverts from my garden. i particularly go for the hoverflies, bees and garden spiders (the ones most likely to have pollen on). i've had no losses since i started this unlike before when i was using fruit flies and crickets. i think my...