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I decided to work at getting a wing pic. Typical S. limbata wing pattern? OK well thanks everybody, I think I'm through with this one.

Going by info Hypoponera posted also, it's not S. carolina like you said. Seems too odd to me that it would be a xbred species but I don't know, seems to be S. limbata. One fell while molting several days ago. If I remember, the wing was half yellow and half black ...maybe more yellow than...

I tried to get one to go into a threat pose to see the wings but I haven't seen one do it yet. I can see enough under the wing covers to see that they are yellow though. Yellow and black. So finally we are seeing that they are S. limbata? I've got 3 females and some males. I may as well...

Finally, an adult female.

"Oh Darn! Was that yours? It is poison and I poured it out No, that wasn't it, I tripped over that big rock you guys were sleeping under...& it accidently fell out of my poor hands and broke...No, wait a minute, The sun dried it up, yea that was it ... the Sun!" Dang! you beat me to it...

Woosh!, had a few drinks last night, had to log on today and see if I said anything crazy. Cool, I'm curious to see what you find out about that species. Maybe that site hasn't been revised, it might be old. I spend too much time looking Under rocks, maybe I've seen you.

Maybe one of the problems is that crickets wouldn't be a natural food item for them in the wild. Most crickets are very terrestrial, run around on the ground where most mantises wouldn't be. They are still good food though, I see that. It seems to me that most mantises are genetically...

Mine have one molt to go. I've fed them a few times by Turing over the top they hang down on so that they are out in the open and standing up. But first I get a roach, in your case a cricket or even something from the porch light. I know the positions on catching wild food but I don't worry...

"I still think you've got S. limbata. All of mine have those nice stipes! Love the tiger stripe camo pattern." I've seen plenty of pics of S. limbata with stripes too, assuming they got the ID right so who knows?.... sure could be S. limbata, we will find out any day now. A little off topic...

I can't remember where I first saw S. venusta mentioned, there sure isn't a lot of info on it. These I have are prob not S. venusta just going by how little info is out there about S. venusta. Maybe they aren't real common but according to this site they are native to the US. I don't know...

Sweeeet caroline...u, ...bla bla bla bla bla bla blaaaa, me too, anyway, I'm thinking they might be S. carolina that may look a little diff because maybe over 1000's of generations, their coloration has adapted to the environment I found them in :huh: . That's just my guess. Well gotta go to...

Yeah I'm considering all. Somebody ruled out S. carolina, but I haven't in my own mind, just going to have to wait and see. I found that other name, it was Stagmomantis venusta.

Ha, cool! It looks like it's been abused. Wait, wait, your story is that it "fell" <_< , right? :D Everybody has some nice pics.

Gas prices are high but I see many on black-top country roads at night in August and Sept around here in central tx. You can drive about 25 mph, if it's safe to, and pick up a few that way if they are in the area.

Here's a male eating a small cicada. Getting closer to the final molt and we'll finally see what it is! Haha, no big deal, maybe S. limbata? What's that other one where the sp name starts with a "v"? Oh well, just have to wait.

Thanks for digging that up Pelle.

That'd be cool and hope they post. It does make sense that the 2, maybe 3 questions I'm wondering about would have been looked into before.

The eyes darkening to adjust for light looks like an obvious answer but does anybody know or even have a theory about why they darken at night? I wonder what the sight difference is for them when they darken. Are they blocking light or seeing different light rays than they normally would...

It's easy to see the buds get bigger with molts, I guess it takes getting familiar with each species and looking at the buds to know if the finale molt is coming up. I don't know if I'll do this again any time soon. I have a lot of other inverts. These mantids have required way more attention...

Hello, I've been wondering if there is a way to tell if a mantis is subadult? I'm trying to figure out if this one has one molt left, or two. I'm thinking one is left, just because of it's size. It's hard for me to think there are two left. I lost count of the molts, that would be a way but...