Insane looking mantis

[Morpheus uk]

Someone bring these to cultre now!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://en.sevenload.com/images/iguWEdS/Zoolea-gigas

 

[keelan]

whowa meya ye please someone bring these to culture they are so funky looking

 

[Rob Byatt]

They have already been bred and you have seen pictures of my Zoolea sp. already Morpheus

 

[Morpheus uk]

Yeah but this is a different sp, i would love a normal zoolea, but i want to get my more common mantids bred first, which apart from my now psuedoempusa pair, is going absolutly ######

 

[allenator]

It has a painted look about it. I'm no expert but this looks like a model that has been painted,not a photo of an actual living thing.

 

[Rob Byatt]

Yeah but this is a different sp, i would love a normal zoolea, but i want to get my more common mantids bred first, which apart from my now psuedoempusa pair, is going absolutly ######

They are all as beautiful as each other in this genus.

 

[Morpheus uk]

Ang on i thought they were hard to breed and rear though?

If they arent there at my top ten :lol:

 

[Andrew]

Thats not a real mantis, lol. Its a model somone made.

 

[Rick]

Fake

 

[Mantis_Whisper]

Yeah it's fake, that guys makes some nice models.

If that was a real mantis I would start breeding them as soon as possible, it looks beautiful.

 

[keelan]

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha i feel soo stupid now for thinking it was real, even though its a great model

 

[yen_saw]

Don't be keelan, the model looks pretty real

There were similar links here for this Zoolea sp. in this forum

http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8489

http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7837

 

[bubforever]

Wow nice lookin fake...

 

[nub3]

while you're at it, bring one of these to the culture too

and this

 

[AFK]

wow. not so cute anymore. a mantis goes from cute to downright scary when they become gigantic

 

[yen_saw]

With a mantis that size, that person has little chance to escape (what was it 80% kill rate?). Luckily, mantis never grow to even close to a foot.

 

[TrogPhoto]

This is as close as I could get to a translation on the original post's link:

Model of "Zoolea of gigas". Es concerns a very large Gottesanbeterin out of Suedamerika. Das model is long around 20 cm.

 

[Morpheus uk]

I though the head looked iffy but though it was real through the stance ^_^

 

[Kruszakus]

http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/

What is that? :blink: