I really wanted to start this when I first started collecting, well time has really flown. I am going to go back to the beginning in collection order.. This is for my own memory.. (because I can't count on my own) Hope you all enjoy my journey. I figured who better to share it with, then my buggy friends.
So my journey started off with an internet search for a garden mantis, which I could not find a mantis available anywhere... Started looking up mantids native to Michigan. Decided to start looking for Chinese, or European mantis, for a couple months I kept searching. I could only find ooths, so I decided to get 1 (Chinese) and see what happens. I kept searching and purchased another ooth (European). While I was doing my searches, I started finding pet mantids ... and as I continued searching a whole new world opened up right before my eyes...Then I found this place, everyone showing off their beautiful pets & sharing so much info. Yes, I had been bitten, hard not by a mantid for real... just by my own OCD. I had decided that the ooths had not hatched (it was getting late in the season) So I would keep them through the winter and release them next spring. So I might as well get a couple of pets to watch grow while my ooths hatch.. I have been learning so much new stuff that I had no idea how interesting and entertaining an insect could be. Multiply that by 10... pure joy... Did not have any luck with my ooths (Too late in the season, I think) But I have one heck of a pet collection started. And a second home here with people who enjoy the hobby as much as I do. I just hope I can learn to take better pictures throughout this journey for your sake, because I am not doing too well with my pics so far. I will be adding mantis pictures slowly, to this now and then with updates. (I still have to take the photo's)
Enough talk, here we go!
... First mantis I got was L2 Pseudocreobotera Wahilbergii - Spiny flower mantis or #9 mantis
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So my journey started off with an internet search for a garden mantis, which I could not find a mantis available anywhere... Started looking up mantids native to Michigan. Decided to start looking for Chinese, or European mantis, for a couple months I kept searching. I could only find ooths, so I decided to get 1 (Chinese) and see what happens. I kept searching and purchased another ooth (European). While I was doing my searches, I started finding pet mantids ... and as I continued searching a whole new world opened up right before my eyes...Then I found this place, everyone showing off their beautiful pets & sharing so much info. Yes, I had been bitten, hard not by a mantid for real... just by my own OCD. I had decided that the ooths had not hatched (it was getting late in the season) So I would keep them through the winter and release them next spring. So I might as well get a couple of pets to watch grow while my ooths hatch.. I have been learning so much new stuff that I had no idea how interesting and entertaining an insect could be. Multiply that by 10... pure joy... Did not have any luck with my ooths (Too late in the season, I think) But I have one heck of a pet collection started. And a second home here with people who enjoy the hobby as much as I do. I just hope I can learn to take better pictures throughout this journey for your sake, because I am not doing too well with my pics so far. I will be adding mantis pictures slowly, to this now and then with updates. (I still have to take the photo's)
Enough talk, here we go!
... First mantis I got was L2 Pseudocreobotera Wahilbergii - Spiny flower mantis or #9 mantis
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B:
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