European mantid poses and other mantids also

[Joe]

heres some of the mantids i kept in the past. i still have their pictures

EUROPEAN MANTIS

GROUND MANTIS

 

[Joe]

CONTINUED

OTHER MANTIDS I HAD

 

[Joe]

AND CONTINUED SOME MORE

SETUPS

 

[Katnapper]

Very nice, Joe!!

PS... Don't tell me what happened with the mantis and scorpion.

 

[kamakiri]

Fun shots! even the ones that make me nervous! Please share more!

 

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[SIZE=14pt]cool clean pics [/SIZE]

 

[revmdn]

Way cool! How old are they?

 

[Joe]

glad you all enjoyed them! dont worry about the scorpion or mantis they seemed like buddies when all they did was crawl over eachother while trying to take a good pic haha. i was taking it for a project i think. but all the others were just for fun and for memories. all the european mantids were like 2 weeks old as adults and caught them in eastern washington. im gonna try to catch a bunch more this summer i can hardly wait!

 

[Giosan]

Nice!

 

[agent A]

I hate european mantids. The hatchlings are so weak and tiny. Not a species I will probably try again. And what went on with the mantis eating the other mantis?

 

[Joe]

thanks everyone! and yeah im not a big fan of europeans either, they also are incredible hard to hatch since the ooths have to be overwintered at a precise amount of time and temperature and ive only did it successfuly once out of a hundred times lol. And the the brown mantis eating the green one was a result of turning your bak for 5 min during a cage cleaning, or a moving, its been forever i forgot exactly, but i decided to take a picture for future reference, i didnt like i tho since the one being eaten was my last male chinese mantis at the time

 

[agent A]

Why were they together? And europeans hatch a long time after diapause.

 

[jameslongo]

Very nice pics, Joe! What is the mantid after the Ground Mantids & the single shot of the green Giant Asian (?) under the 'OTHER MANTIDS I HAD' section? The one with the concave shield thorax?

 

[Joe]

i cant quite remember why those two were together, but i know that before i put some on a tree togehter really fast while i cleaned out or moved cages. and the one with the concave sheild after the green, i believe giant indian mantis, is a giant devils mantis. boy those things were a fragile species, like being light in weight compared to their size lol.

 

[jameslongo]

Cool. Haven't seen a mantid with a "curled-up" thorax before. Just your down-facing Deroplatys & Ghost et al. It's nice, it's different, it's unusual... hahaha :lol:

 

[superfreak]

james! are you talking about that beautiful idolo nymph? silly boy!

 

[superfreak]

oh wait, just noticed the one after it! :huh: oops!

 

[Borya]

Very nice pics, Joe! What is the mantid after the Ground Mantids & the single shot of the green Giant Asian (?) under the 'OTHER MANTIDS I HAD' section? The one with the concave shield thorax?

Isn't it Deroplatys dessicata nymph?

Joe, thank you!

Can you post more photos of Tamolanica tamolana (huge brown one with wide pronotum, under Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii)?

 

[ABbuggin]

nice pics