cool mantis pics

[wuwu]

http://www.geocities.com/boris-lomov/gallery.html

that page has pics of some really cool mantises i've never heard of or seen pics of. thought i'd share.

 

[yen_saw]

Is amazing that there are so many types of mantis out there in just South East Asia or even just Malaysia. Sad part is deforestation is a common thing in these countries and many insects may extinct without even being discovered. Large bark mantis like Theopoma sp. would probably be the first few species to go...... sigh

 

[Yosei]

Maybe you should go there and start a save the mantids campaign!!

 

[13ollox]

I'd be up for that ! some of those were truley fantastic and it would be a real shame if the poor buggers got wiped out by some fat sweaty man driving a yellow bulldozer !

Neil

 

[Ian]

The link appears to be dud?

EDIT: I see, we have overused the bandwidth limit!

 

[ellroy]

I see our old friend Toxodera is in there

 

[Ian]

Good god...some beautiful species there!