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Fantastic pictures! What a beautiful mantis!

I think I'll give it a try when she's mature. Thanks rbird for the suggestion!

Looking for 3-5 Phyllocrania paradoxa nymphs. :)

These were taken before her last molt

Here's my tiny little Scudder's mantis, Oligonicella scudderi. Wish I could find her a male but I've never seen them in the hobby and they are so hard to find out here, being so small! She's a subadult (not sure but I think one more molt to go), and she molted two days ago.

Good luck with her rbird. I hope she breeds for you!

We had a brown S. limbata female last year, but we're in central Texas. This year's S. limbata (should have ooths in a couple weeks) :)

Thanks Rick, I've actually read that page already :) Truly a cool little species.

I used to keep Creobroter pictipennis, and have kept local species off and on, and Chinese mantises, but not any more, as kids and college have sort of taken over my life! I would love to get some flowers again, or Hymenopus coronatus, or Odontomantis spp.

Two different species of dung beetles: Canthon pilularius (Common dung beetle) and Canthon viridis (small green one), and a big female ox beetle (Strategus aloeus), all local residents of our property! Video of C. viridis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUclJFCZ6g And pictures of this tiny...

We found one of these (the smaller male) in the bathtub one night. The larger female (different species???) we found today on the back porch. Both are cave crickets (aka camel crickets). They are looking for cool moist areas, water and probably food. We've been in a several years-long drought...

Wow! What a scary looking and beautiful insect! I have never seen one before either, so interesting they only live 7 days as adults! Nice videos too!

Some more pictures we've taken:

Here is another species that inhabits this area. These scorpions are everywhere!!! At night, around 10pm, we sometimes go out with our UV flashlight and go scorpion hunting! We don't kill them or anything, just observe and count. Usually we find upwards of 8-10, of all sizes, and right outside...

It's been about 4 years since I first joined and well, kids and college sort of took my life over! I am not keeping any mantis species right now, though we like to take pictures of ones we find, as well as nearly every other critter we come across! Our youtube channel is The Wimberley...

It does look like a cellar spider! Thanks! now to find out which species... :stuart:

We have entertained the thought of keeping one in a tank in the house, maybe some day. But for now, just finding them is fun enough for us!

I was guessing Carolina mantis because of the coloring as well, and because they're pretty common around here. We're in central Texas, halfway between Austin and San Antonio, so I don't know if S. limbata lives out here or not either. Perhaps we'll see this little guy again in the future. We let...

This was the first one I've ever seen, actually! They are common, but nocturnal and well, TINY! So they're really easy to miss. I thought someone lost a pet when I first saw it, as it was so pretty and smaller than the usual wild frogs we find around here, hehehe.

Well, they aren't insects, but they are invertebrates1 These are pictures of some of our juvenile Marmorkrebs (marbled crayfish). All Marmorkrebs are female and reproduce by parthenogenesis- essentially cloning themselves! Here's a couple video links too...