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The molt/ooth shot is excellent and I love nymphs on hands as it really helps with scale.

Loving those nymphs Joeho, are they that ornate at L1 or are these slightly older? Are they straight 100mm shots or some extra mag?

nice sequence

I have previously done a lot of resin casting but only on a small matchbox type scale. If it's jewelery casting resin two part that you mix then it produces heat when setting that will discolor the mantis. The bigger it is the more heat will be produced. I found that thin layers painted on...

Super cute, how do I get em in the UK Yen, is there any way?

So much intricacy for nymphs, do these show full wing casing pattern before subadult normaly?

Thanks for posting your mantis stash dude, lovely collection.

You don't need an expensive camera to show us how cool your gongies are! They were next on my list of wants but I couldn't find an ooth or L1 in the UK. I'd love a gang of gongies like you.

I'm sure it's normal, what I meant was I don't understand why the flies wing and body at the very bottom is white as opposed to just OOF. There's a lot I don't understand though :rolleyes: I think perhaps it is the flash hitting it if that is what was used to create the white background after...

I'd feed em if I had any wild ones any less than a ferry ride and drive away. Nice to see some recent mantis pics from you though Yeatzee, I really enjoyed looking through your galleries, lush compositions indeed. Why does the bottom of the fly blur out like so? I can't work it out.

Good to see pics of your babies, that's a big breakfast though, my ghost seems scared of anything bigger than his head.

Lovely images, stunning nymphs. Really digging the purple eyes and green shades of the body. They have a real similar shape to some mio's I just got that jump so fast they seem to teleport. :lol: The new diopter does really well, but now you can get a tube and then stick that on the end as...

Nice shots man. Can I suggest you try an extension tube set if your serious about quality past 1:1 on that delicious camera and lens? 68mm of extension tubes will give you about 2.3x mag, probably about what your getting and the 100m lens working slightly out of it's designed range is way...

All gorgeous mantids, I love the look of the Pseudo nymphs like glossy insect barnacles

Thank you MantisNation Which one looks more realistic, retouched or original? I need to start working on my backgrounds more though, I think there's lots of room fro improvement there.

I couldn't bear to see him get munched up and perhaps I can still use him as a subject. The guy above with the curled front leg (I really need to learn some terminology/taxonomy) had a bad molt prior to that one and had both his back legs stuck inside his exhuvia, dragging it about :( I...

lovely sharp video, thanks for posting. I forget how huge some of these mantids are without people in for reference.

Some more focus stacking as I just can't leave it alone :rolleyes: Added the top of the crown to the portrait shot above. I kinda like it but does it look natural? The plane of focus does go along that diagonal but his crown would have to be lots more bent to actually be in focus like this...

Cheers Joeho, they are captivating insects. I don't think I will be satisfied until I can get a camera on a microscope but I love taking hand held shots of live specimens. Some more of my only lonely Ghost male L5

Cheers Yen I'm enjoying trying to capture the details, perfect little critters to practice photography with. They have all molted to L6 now but here's a few pics of my only male while he was still L5 that I thought was actually female until recently, now he get's three ladies to choose from...