PookaDotted
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Hey everybody! I AM BACK!!
So I DID find some wild praying mantids but they were not adults, so I have no idea what they were. One was only a first or second instar, they were on a fence post on the outside of the chiang mai zoo, and were eating ants. There were soooo many ants, ugh, and they were on everything. BUT I got a photo of the sub adult mantis that jumped on my hubbies hand when my hubby presented it to the mantis. It was quite hilarious and swayed him into really liking the idea of me having these little bugs in the house haha. When we walked away after he forced the green dude off my hubby (Man they are fast and agile and didnèt want to leave his arm) we were halfway up the hill entrance to the zoo when my hbby looked down to the right and saw a teeny nymph on his cheek bone looking to pick a fight. he was gently removed as well and placed back in his original spot haha.
Later that day we also went to the chiang mai bug zoo, which was pretty neat. They had walls and walls of pinned insects, and they were breeding mantids, hercules beetles, butterflies, and various other insects and arachnids. It was quite cool. my hubby held a scorpion, he was excited but it was not that interesting to me. I have held lots of scorpions and the same species are in the pet trade in canada. They had two huge green house-like rooms outside tht they released the butterlfies into. they then collected the caterpillars and fed them till they metamorphasised into chysalis, and then butterflies. it as pretty awesome. They had quite a few different species of mantids, i had no idea what they were because im not that well versed in mantid identification, but they were quite beautiful. The hercules beetles were awesome too, and FREAKING HUGE. I also fed elephants, pet tigers, shook hands with a monkey, visited temples, was blessed by a monk, and did numerous other things while i was there, but I know you want to see the photos of the bugs I saw, so I will upload them ASAP and post them here.
So I DID find some wild praying mantids but they were not adults, so I have no idea what they were. One was only a first or second instar, they were on a fence post on the outside of the chiang mai zoo, and were eating ants. There were soooo many ants, ugh, and they were on everything. BUT I got a photo of the sub adult mantis that jumped on my hubbies hand when my hubby presented it to the mantis. It was quite hilarious and swayed him into really liking the idea of me having these little bugs in the house haha. When we walked away after he forced the green dude off my hubby (Man they are fast and agile and didnèt want to leave his arm) we were halfway up the hill entrance to the zoo when my hbby looked down to the right and saw a teeny nymph on his cheek bone looking to pick a fight. he was gently removed as well and placed back in his original spot haha.
Later that day we also went to the chiang mai bug zoo, which was pretty neat. They had walls and walls of pinned insects, and they were breeding mantids, hercules beetles, butterflies, and various other insects and arachnids. It was quite cool. my hubby held a scorpion, he was excited but it was not that interesting to me. I have held lots of scorpions and the same species are in the pet trade in canada. They had two huge green house-like rooms outside tht they released the butterlfies into. they then collected the caterpillars and fed them till they metamorphasised into chysalis, and then butterflies. it as pretty awesome. They had quite a few different species of mantids, i had no idea what they were because im not that well versed in mantid identification, but they were quite beautiful. The hercules beetles were awesome too, and FREAKING HUGE. I also fed elephants, pet tigers, shook hands with a monkey, visited temples, was blessed by a monk, and did numerous other things while i was there, but I know you want to see the photos of the bugs I saw, so I will upload them ASAP and post them here.
