Another phasmid!

[superfreak]

Boyfriend found this little thing in his yard.

it looks so much like the stem of a bunch of eucalyptus leaves!

 

[revmdn]

Neat-o.

 

[Katnapper]

Doesn't look so "little" to me! :lol:

 

[superfreak]

wait till i post photos of his big sister. found her in the same tree last night.

 

[Katnapper]

wait till i post photos of his big sister. found her in the same tree last night.

:huh:

 

[hibiscusmile]

wow, I would love to see them in my yard!

 

[macro junkie]

i have one identical to that.i didnt find mine in the garden tho i found it on the Internet :lol:

your very lucky living where you do.

 

[superfreak]

oh but i would love to live somewhere where the illegal mantid trade has taken off to the extent it has in the us !! i basically only have what i find in the yard!

 

[revmdn]

I'll trade locals with you any day. :lol:

 

[Peter Clausen]

Hey, you know what this means??? They're BOTH keepers!

Boyfriend found this little thing in his yard.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Hey, you know what this means??? They're BOTH keepers!

Bet I do! Please? Please (desperate hand in the air GIF)? It means that both Superfreak and her boyfriend are phasmid keepers! Right? Did I get it right?

 

[Katnapper]

Hey, you know what this means??? They're BOTH keepers!

I think Peter means both the phasmid AND the boyfriend are worth keeping!

 

[PhilinYuma]

I think Peter means both the phasmid AND the boyfriend are worth keeping!

You think so? Oh, now I get it! Like in Genesis 4:9! No that can'rt be right! Wouldn't that make the boyfriend a kept man?

 

[Katnapper]

You think so? Oh, now I get it! Like in Genesis 4:9! No that can'rt be right! Wouldn't that make the boyfriend a kept man?

Umm... I think I'll just keep on keepin' on..... and not reply to that!

 

[superfreak]

heres photos of the mature female and her eggs (theyre the ones on the top right, the others are for comparison). sorry about the lighting, but she really has quite a splash of yellow on her hindwings, directly under the forewings.

as for the boy, well, what can i say, he brings home the phasmids! and thats all i need in a man

 

[Peter Clausen]

Great photos! What species is that? The ova look a little different compared to my distant memory of the popular two Acrophylla spp. Also, yellow doesn't come to mind, but checkers almost of black or brownish with clear window spots.

I wish my wife were that easily pleased (and pleased she WOULD be with my bugroom!) Maybe I just need more phasmids!

 

[superfreak]

oh right, i found out it was a margin-winged (Ctenomorpha marginipennis). The cerci were too long for it to be anything but a Ctenomorpha sp. The little one is the same. I have a feeling its a male from the length of the antenna and the early appearance of teeny tiny wing buds but i guess ill be able to tell better once it moults

and peter, a womans love for you should always be proportionate to the combined weight of your insects and arachnids, multiplied by number of reptiles kept in the bedroom. thats w(LOVE) = R(i + A)

so the best bet is to increase the number of any of these (all but the women, of course!) and her love (or extra women! ) will surely soon follow!

it may be of interest to note that in the case where your love for your woman is equal to that for your insects and arachnids, your woman can be assumed to be reptilian.

 

[Katnapper]

oh right, i found out it was a margin-winged (Ctenomorpha marginipennis). The cerci were too long for it to be anything but a Ctenomorpha sp. The little one is the same. I have a feeling its a male from the length of the antenna and the early appearance of teeny tiny wing buds but i guess ill be able to tell better once it moults and peter, a womans love for you should always be proportionate to the combined weight of your insects and arachnids, multiplied by number of reptiles kept in the bedroom. thats w(LOVE) = R(i + A)

so the best bet is to increase the number of any of these (all but the women, of course!) and her love (or extra women! ) will surely soon follow!

it may be of interest to note that in the case where your love for your woman is equal to that for your insects and arachnids, your woman can be assumed to be reptilian.

:huh: :lol:

 

[PhilinYuma]

and peter, a womans love for you should always be proportionate to the combined weight of your insects and arachnids, multiplied by number of reptiles kept in the bedroom. thats w(LOVE) = R(i + A)so the best bet is to increase the number of any of these (all but the women, of course!) and her love (or extra women! ) will surely soon follow!

it may be of interest to note that in the case where your love for your woman is equal to that for your insects and arachnids, your woman can be assumed to be reptilian.

Ms. Superfreak:

Seldom, since the departure of the great Turin, have I seen an equation so elegantly appealig to the intellect and so rife (dare I say redolent?) with practical implications.

I shall not attempt to adorn the philosophical beauty of the expression, saying only, with Flaubert, "Va donc, sans autre ornament," but I would like your advice on at least one interpretation of its practical implications.

Can the first part of the tautology (as you state it) be applied to more than one woman simultaneously? For example, suppose that I live with one woman who loves me Somewhat (I shall assign that love a value of 3 out of a possible 10) and the product (3) permits me to keep 30 mantids, where A = 0 and the two lizards under the bed are a constant.

Let us suppose (and this is purely hypothetical, of course) that the woman wants her younger sister, who loves me not at all, to come live with us, can I say that 2x3 [1+1(3)]=6. and double the inhabitants of my bug room?

If then I seduce the woman's younger sister so that she loves me as much as the woman, can I then double the number of mantids again [1+1(3+3)]? That would make 120 mantids, Yay!

I don't know whether this is of any particular significance, but the woman's name is Meroe and her sister is Lamia. Should this be a matter for concern?

Thanking you in advance for your help in this matter, I remain yours, etc.