Current collection

[guapoalto049]

This is my current mantid collection. I know my photography skills are sub-par and the camera I use was bought for about $60, but I figured I'd share the pics with my fellow mantis lovers!

 

[LauraMG]

Nice!

 

[lancaster1313]

I love the pics,some of them look like my Chinese mantids. Are a couple of them Chinese?

 

[guapoalto049]

I love the pics,some of them look like my Chinese mantids. Are a couple of them Chinese?

Yes, I'm trying how to figure out how to put captions on the photos, its my first photo post. Pictures 3,4, and 5 are Chinese mantids. They are my subadult females. Photo 8 is a close relative of the Chinese, known as the Narrow-Winged mantis (notice the orange spot on the prothorax, rather than yellow for the Chinese). The last photo is a size comparison of my largest female with a male ghost mantid.

 

[ismart]

Very nice collection you got going!

 

[Precarious]

NIce! Your pics are great. I especially like that outdoor shot of the Narrow-Winged mantis.

And nice color on that salt'n'pepper ghost! None of mine are that color.

 

[guapoalto049]

NIce! Your pics are great. I especially like that outdoor shot of the Narrow-Winged mantis.

And nice color on that salt'n'pepper ghost! None of mine are that color.

Thanks man! Yeah the T. angustipennis were actually collected in the bushes at my beach house, which is where the photo was taken. I took two male/female pairs and bred them for this summer's batch. Don't ask how 'salt n pepper' got that color, all of my ghosts are raised in the same net cage and eat the same food! Guess I got lucky :clap:

 

[Ghostie]

Nice collection and photos! B)

I don't think we need very good cameras to be able to appreciate these little characters.

 

[hibiscusmile]

I have the same ghost, I though I was just imaginating the color :lol:

 

[guapoalto049]

Here are the others I could not fit: My freshly molted Chinese female (~9.5 cm), two future Chinese mates (eyeing eachother up), and a 'whatchu lookin at' pose by another photogenic Chinese female

 

[lancaster1313]

:lol: I love the whatyoulookinat! I have an old mantis photo with that title.