Chinese praying mantis

[Jenn]

Some pictures of my Chinese mantids hatching and an L1.

 

[hibiscusmile]

The second to the last one must have bugs, he's scratching his head! :lol:

 

[Jenn]

lol

 

[Way.Of.The.Mantis]

Cool, ive got to get an ooth - my CHinese just molted! :lol:

 

[ronnyreagan]

I just had an ooth hatch last night. I forgot how TINY they are!





Very nice pictures by the way, what lens / lighting do you use?

 

[Jenn]

They are vey cute ronny. I use a Raynox DCR-250 Super Macro/Close-Up lens and lighting is in a different post here http://mantidforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5743 It shows how I set up...

 

[Jenn]

I let some of the chinese go today and got a couple of pictures of my L3 before it took off...

 

[OGIGA]

How nice! They're becoming green.

 

[bluebman52]

These just hatched this morning.

You can see in a couple of the pictures that there are fruitflies all over. I havn't seen any of them try to go for a fruit fly yet. They may not have an appetite after hatching.

 

[bluebman52]

Here's a picture of my first L2 molt.

 

[Way.Of.The.Mantis]

Great photos!

 

[OGIGA]

Nice! You caught it molting (kind of).

 

[bluebman52]

Wow! Its as if they all decided to molt on one day! I count at least 9 or 10 more, and about 4 or 5 more molting as I type.

 

[robo mantis]

Got this 2 minutes after first one came out.