Grass Mantis (Thesprotia Griminis)

[mantiscraze]

Collected 2 female grass mantes over the weekend, was unsure about how to feed them. Got some small-size crickets from Petsmart, and despite their tiny stubby raptor arms, they are hunting and eating these crickets just fine, phew!

 

[psyconiko]

Very nice.

 

[Precarious]

It's gonna take a lot of patient chewing to get that thing down!

 

[minard734]

Where did you find this one?

 

[dragon]

Such a big meal for such a petite gal!

 

[mantiscraze]

Wow, woke up this morning and bam, there was an ooth...salmon!

 

[mantiscraze]

In Florida, places with a lot of tall grass.

Where did you find this one?

 

[minard734]

Central FL? My cuz lives there.

 

[mantiscraze]

I'd assume that they can be found almost anywhere in Florida. Their range is Southern US and Mexico. But, again, you'll have to really look around tall grass. They are very hard to spot, small like a blade of grass, and blends in with their surroundings.

Central FL? My cuz lives there.

 

[minard734]

What kind of zones do you collect in? Street sides?

 

[mantiscraze]

Large field with overgrown weed (grass-type).

What kind of zones do you collect in? Street sides?

 

[mantiscraze]

Picture Day

Off topic, how to change topic heading? Noticed that I had the species name wrong. And how do you delete a topic?

 

[mantiscraze]

Found another fresh load this morning, this time, from the other female, very well concealed.

Like the color of these ooth, salmon.

 

[minard734]

Epic... and don't worry about the typo in the title. I noticed but it didn't really bother me.

 

[Idolofreak]

Nice mantids and awesome ooth colors!

 

[mantiscraze]

They love to protect their ooth

 

[mantiscraze]

These mantids are absolutely beasts!

 

[RevWillie]

Great pics! Yeah, I'd say eating something more than 10 times the size of your head qualifies you as a beast!

 

[mantiscraze]

How they are able to tackle and grab onto large preys with their skinny raptorial front legs with extremely short tibia always amazes me. I'd say pound-for-pound the best mantis fighter in the world.