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Thanks again, guys!! @digger: ooh, right! All of these, except the last photo in the OP, are wild-caught Heirodula sp. :D The odd one out is a tenodera sinensis boy. And here's more Cheuun (the same Heirodula girl featured in the OP): I think this illustrates the limits of the lens and...

One on the left looks like a creobroter while the one on the right is likely Hierodula or Sphodromantis sp--but is a lot harder to ID without a better photo. Tiny green mantis nymphs encompass quite a wide variety of genera, and can all look very similar with very mild differences @ u@ Someone...

here's another one from the same batch who molted to L5, and the first thing I thought when I saw him was "my you're looking very majustic today..." Look at that pink chest! These guys are also shaping up to be pretty small. Even for males, they're turning out to be way tinier than my other...

hehe thanks, guys! I finally sat down and read about ISO and aperture and shutterspeed, etc. I never knew about any of this stuff before--and it kinda helps to know how one affect the other, and how to manipulate these things effectively! I tested some more on one of my tinier nymphs: I'm...

thanks, guys!! <33 I certainly appreciate the encouragement ; u; <3 Also, I found the manual focus feature (just in time for the battery to die), yaaayyy!

I'm sorry :< Definately try again, sometime. It's quite a blow to have your first mantis perish, but rest assured, you're right that it's probably nothing you had done wrong. Sometimes, these things just happen, and we can't always be there to constantly watch and moderate their behavior. If...

your photography makes me ugly cry, it's so beautiful. The colors you get with your lighting set-ups is unreal; amazing. Real talk, tho. This little dude's antennae makes me hungry for gummy worms...

A friend of mine lent me their old Olympus E-P2, and so I'm kinda excited to see how a real camera works. It only came with a pretty standard lens, but up until now, I've only had my little samsung galaxy note 2 phone to take photos with. So needless to say, I'm pretty thankful for the upgrade...

I've only ever had one mantis go into full threat display, sigh... she sure was pretty, though! Wild-caught Statilia nemoralis, found in a rubber plantation in Thailand haha! You don't get more exotic than that.

my best guess is, she fell, perhaps while hanging from her abdomen off the skin, at which point the impact of the fall, coupled with her soft exoskeleton might have had some dramatic effects on her internal anatomy. My fingers are crossed for both of you, but a nymph who can't find its feet is...

Here's an interesting thing: In two of my heirodula girls, and in one of my tenodera males, I've observed a strange behavior where they appear to lose control of their head movements. Their mouths start motoring, antennae flail, and their head shakes and twitches in a manner idendical to what...

So, more than anything, I really want a pair of Ghosts... But I live in Thailand, and there is literally no trade here for mantises. I mean, I'm pretty spoiled with the number of local species I can get here, but of course I gotta want what I can't have, sigh! I guess, what I'm wondering...

what a sweetheart! She looks amazing! Congrats on such a beautiful adult!!

good god, these colors; the lighting and focus is amazing! These are almost totally surreal! Stunning shots, wowow I want more!!

Yeah, apparently, they're missing a completely black fore coxae and a black line on the inside of the forefemur., which was originally documented as a marker for the H. parviceps species. Here's the discussion in question! But if they're not parviceps, and their not patellifera, then...what...

Absolutely none; it's a relatively high terrarium, and they've been unable to scale the glass walls. But the substrate is just dirt and cocohusk, so if she *could* scale it, and somehow fell, it wouldn't have been a high enough drop, nor a hard enough landing surface, to do any damage. On top of...

Hehe there's been a lot of debate about what species my Hierodula are. What ever they are, they're definitely my favorite ; u; <3 baby's first adult meal:

The oldest, largest female from my recent generation of Hierodula has molted to adult!! She's came out looking pretty grey, with some nice mottled brown/green wings! I don't know if these are her final colors, of if she'll slowly darken up to a proper brown over the next little while...

Not only that, but they are way smaller than the mis-ID'd parviceps I'm catching in the wild, too @ u@;;

beautiful mantis!! Looks just like my girls :D A wonderful species. The sea foam colored ones like this are my favorite. though, I was told a while back on this site that these mantises are mis-identified and are not parviceps but some kind of patellifera (based on some old text by the...