extatosoma tiaratum

[idolomantis]

a small group

a subadult male

a subadult female

ET

more up soon

 

[obregon562]

these just dont live up to a ghost mantis <_<

 

[idolomantis]

these just dont live up to a ghost mantis <_<

yeah not the ghost mantis bud the ghost phasmid :lol:

 

[spawn]

How you going to compare these to Ghost Mantids? These are 10X the size and have more personality.

 

[obregon562]

ugh i just HATE plant eating bugs! they just look wierd, and it probably doesnt help i grow a ton of plants...most of them eat bugs (yes, the plants eat bugs-they're carnivorous), which makes me think of them as first plant food, then enemies of my plants, then food for my mantids.

So i like ghost mantids 100x better.

 

[Giosan]

ugh i just HATE plant eating bugs! they just look wierd, and it probably doesnt help i grow a ton of plants...most of them eat bugs (yes, the plants eat bugs-they're carnivorous), which makes me think of them as first plant food, then enemies of my plants, then food for my mantids. So i like ghost mantids 100x better.

I'm sure none of your plants can eat an adult female of this phasmid species

 

[obregon562]

Hahaha i guess you've never seen plants in the Nepenthes genus!

Check out these pics:

http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/204/20466.jpg.htm

http://www.hartmeyer.de/Bilder_allgemein/N...mitMaus_720.JPG

http://image58.webshots.com/458/2/80/74/20...07ogAsjm_fs.jpg

http://www.tela-botanica.org/actu/IMG/DSCN0013.jpg

http://www.tela-botanica.org/actu/IMG/DSCN0018.jpg

http://www.hartmeyer.de/Bilder_homewechsel...ueKanne_720.JPG

This site:

http://www.cpjungle.com/nupitchers.htm

This is an entirely different genus too! native to the SE USA! Sarracenia

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/cph...1154_35pc_2.jpg

So HA! those phasmids are goin down! death to plant eaters lol! :lol: just kidding...unless they mess with my plants! :angry: :lol:

 

[Giosan]

Hahaha i guess you've never seen plants in the Nepenthes genus!Check out these pics:

http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/204/20466.jpg.htm

http://www.hartmeyer.de/Bilder_allgemein/N...mitMaus_720.JPG

http://image58.webshots.com/458/2/80/74/20...07ogAsjm_fs.jpg

http://www.tela-botanica.org/actu/IMG/DSCN0013.jpg

http://www.tela-botanica.org/actu/IMG/DSCN0018.jpg

http://www.hartmeyer.de/Bilder_homewechsel...ueKanne_720.JPG

This site:

http://www.cpjungle.com/nupitchers.htm

This is an entirely different genus too! native to the SE USA! Sarracenia

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/cph...1154_35pc_2.jpg

So HA! those phasmids are goin down! death to plant eaters lol! :lol: just kidding...unless they mess with my plants! :angry: :lol:

wow damn that's cool indeed

 

[idolomantis]

Hahaha i guess you've never seen plants in the Nepenthes genus!Check out these pics:

http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/204/20466.jpg.htm

http://www.hartmeyer.de/Bilder_allgemein/N...mitMaus_720.JPG

http://image58.webshots.com/458/2/80/74/20...07ogAsjm_fs.jpg

http://www.tela-botanica.org/actu/IMG/DSCN0013.jpg

http://www.tela-botanica.org/actu/IMG/DSCN0018.jpg

http://www.hartmeyer.de/Bilder_homewechsel...ueKanne_720.JPG

This site:

http://www.cpjungle.com/nupitchers.htm

This is an entirely different genus too! native to the SE USA! Sarracenia

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/cph...1154_35pc_2.jpg

So HA! those phasmids are goin down! death to plant eaters lol! :lol: just kidding...unless they mess with my plants! :angry: :lol:

think ya win?

i,ll show ya the heteropteryx and phobaeticus adults...

your plant are going to get eated in secconds MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

[obregon562]

haha BRING IT ON! :angry: I'll get a Nepenthes hamata on yo az! Or a N. bicalcarata ! Or even better, a N. merrilliana!

 

[idolomantis]

haha BRING IT ON! :angry: I'll get a Nepenthes hamata on yo az! Or a N. bicalcarata ! Or even better, a N. merrilliana!

you need more than some big bucket planty to defeat me

i strike ya with:hetropteryx dilatata!!!!

and followed by: the spiney extatosoma tiaratum!!!!

and give my last punch with the giantic eurycantha calcarata!!!!!

now lwts see what your plants can do.... whatever it is, i,m ready... i,ve got lots more plant killers MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!

 

[Morpheus uk]

Lol, its like trading cards lol

AND I`LL HIT YOU WITH

Phyllium celebicum!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/invertsfromhell/2506384162/

With its leafy appearance it will stealth its way into your green house disguised as one of your own while slyly nibbling lol :lol:

 

[Morpheus uk]

Oh and finally send in a Phasmotaenia godeffroyi, largest phasmid i have under my jungle nymphs >

http://www.insectstore.com/phasmid/gallery...?i=172&c=14

 

[obregon562]

Lol i can see it now "Nepenthes and Phasmids"!

time to call in the big guns...or maybe N. rajah! just bring the whole family along! And the cousins too!

 

[Morpheus uk]

Allllllllllright then lads lets bring the heavy artillery, in the form of a giant armored ground cricket h34r:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/invertsfromhell/2508353565/

This bulky monster would crush through puny vegation devouring all in their wake lol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/invertsfromhell/2508155228/

Then release a flower mantis or 2 to destroy the pollinating insects to stop the plants from having rienforcements any time soon >

 

[ABbuggin]

You guys are just hilarious! :lol:

 

[idolomantis]

ok then if that is what u want? i bring on the airforce!

and go on with the elite phasmid! and the special force

my ninja monsters

and then comes the mass destruction tanks!

you again with your lil plant newbs >

MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHASHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAAHAHAH

 

[d17oug18]

greatest topic ever lol all those different species... you guys now your bugs man ^_^

 

[Griever]

*Summons Phobaeticus chani*

Your plants are teh DOOMED!