I feel like I am on display...

[Krissim Klaw]

Since late last night I haven't been able to do anything in my room without being watched. Hex one of my Creos is sitting in the middle of the clear plastic side of her net cage. She has her face pressed against the plastic and has been watching my every move. On numours occasions I have tried to scare her off with verbal threats, vigerous hand waving, and even some shark attack mouth chomping moves, but all of that only seems to make me more amusing to stare at. Does anyone know the number of a good exterminator? :tank:

Seriously though, for me it is little things like this that countinue to make mantises endlessly amusing and a sheer joy to keep. :wub:

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

Nothing like walking into the bug room and having about 50 pairs of eyes shift to you

 

[aNisip]

Nothing like walking into the bug room and having about 50 pairs of eyes shift to you

And all going into there "I'm invisible, don't look at me" pose "I'm a stick, I'm a stick, I'm a stick...."

 

[hibiscusmile]

haha, take that baby out to play!

 

[aNisip]

Most likely she is hungry. ...many times my mantids will press their face on the wall where their sister is and get that hungry look on their mandibles....just give her a big meal and she should be good.....if not and she keeps this up, she can develop eye rub (not good) ....place her enclosure somwhere else where there is less to catch her attention...

 

[agent A]

my toads like to watch me when im up in my room wanting to be alone

they dont respect privacy :lol:

 

[Krissim Klaw]

Nothing like walking into the bug room and having about 50 pairs of eyes shift to you

They sure know how to give the stares. I can never seem to win a staring contest with them.

And all going into there "I'm invisible, don't look at me" pose "I'm a stick, I'm a stick, I'm a stick...."

Mine usually go for the, "I am a twig!" pose. :stuart:

haha, take that baby out to play!

I finallly relented and took her out and set her on my desk plant. She spent the next few hours watching TV which gave me a break from her death stare.

Most likely she is hungry. ...many times my mantids will press their face on the wall where their sister is and get that hungry look on their mandibles....just give her a big meal and she should be good.....if not and she keeps this up, she can develop eye rub (not good) ....place her enclosure somwhere else where there is less to catch her attention...

I'm not worried about eye rub since she wasn't actively rubbing her face against the enclosure. I've never had problems with my mantises developing eye rubs in spacious net encloursures. The only time I ever got eye spots was way back when I housed one in a metal net type enclousure.

I also find even if well fed most of my mantises tend to be increadably nosey when it comes to watching anything moving around their cages. When it comes to eye rubs it wouldn't be this behaviour I would be worried about but the mantis that is not watching anything in particular just repeatedly trying to crawl past the wall of the cage. With most species I have found a large cage tends to largely eliminate this behaviour. Some species like the Chinese can still be super wander/I want to walk through that wall butts, even in a huge cage, but I have found the net cages are typically gentle enough that what rubbing they end up doing doesn't hurt their eyes.

Thank you for the concern though. =3

my toads like to watch me when im up in my room wanting to be alone

they dont respect privacy :lol:

Since my bug room is my bedroom that is pretty much the story of my life. :clown:

 

[sally]

If my bugroom was my bedroom I would be living in the tropics,lol

 

[Krissim Klaw]

If my bugroom was my bedroom I would be living in the tropics,lol

That is pretty much where I live, well the subtropics anyways. =p