Kill of the day

[Rick]

Cicada killer, dont know if its the same species as yours Rick?http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx...ers_hand_35.jpg

Yep that's it. They fly around the yard and I knock them out of the air with a rake. They sting a cicada and drag it back to their hole and lay an egg on it. The egg hatches and feeds on the cicada.

 

[mantidsandgeckos]

I had to get rid of my Leiurus quinquestriatus death stalker scorpions in a real hurry as a kid (parents) but i couldnt so i gave them to my Hierodula membranacea females. not very proud of it but hey i was a kid <_<

you kept death stalkers AS A KID :blink: :blink: ????wow

 

[idolomantis]

some people keep poisonous things as kids. i saw a 12 yearold boy woth a scolopendra cinculata..

 

[collinchang635]

Cicada killer, dont know if its the same species as yours Rick?http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx...ers_hand_35.jpg

Whoa, thats a big hornet! :blink:

 

[idolomantis]

Yep that's it. They fly around the yard and I knock them out of the air with a rake. They sting a cicada and drag it back to their hole and lay an egg on it. The egg hatches and feeds on the cicada.

are they that easy to hit? i tried to knock some out with a stick but i couldn,t hit them..

 

[mantidsaresweet]

Yeah from what I've seen they fly pretty fast

 

[idolomantis]

L2 orchid VS big curly wing

man these are 20th century killing machines!!i added the fly to see how it goes.

orchid snatched up the fly wihc is just the size of it.

an one minute upside down pit fight was up next....

eventualy they both fell in a ball of legs and wing to the floor.. another 10 sec street fight.

eventualy my ferociou demon was able to overpower it, it walked to a branch and held it above the head and started amputating limbs... :blink:

the L3 just jumped towards it and snatchd it up fast before it could blink...

the l3 ghost...

i tried to feed it an curly wing.. it jumped awy, they all did they just sit and wait till a klumpsy frutefly passes by..

not what i call warriors(exept spirit- she is eating whats in her eyesight.)

but still the queen was amelie(ameles decolor) who had a similiar fight as the L2 orchid, but with a hornet.(she was like a velociraptor.)

 

[Rick]

are they that easy to hit? i tried to knock some out with a stick but i couldn,t hit them..

With a big, wide plastic rake they are. Not with a stick.

 

[johnny 5]

mines not as impressive but... my l4 paradoxa took out a hover fly once.

it took her about 40 minutes to eat the whole thing. greedy ######.

 

[Headspace]

Don't tell Mom!

 

[mantidsandgeckos]

Wow.... :blink: :blink:

 

[idolomantis]

:blink: i bet the one on the right has headache now :lol:

 

[collinchang635]

Don't tell Mom!

Ooooo...... :blink:

 

[collinchang635]

Here are my kills of the day:

Tropidomantid eating a giant cricket...

Ant mantid eating a giant cricket. Nitice that the crix head is missing, so that is the body without the head.

 

[The_Asa]

Nice pics, love the Tropidomantid and Chinese pics.

 

[mantidsandgeckos]

wow.... they are eating crix their own size.