Lets see the face behind the username!

[Rick]

Sure. And when it grows up, youll be able to roast it with an apple in its mouth and have a dog meat feast!

Done that. Minus the apple though.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Ian, we know it is hard to get real pets over there, but really there is no reason to be ashamed to walk a pig, so stop pretending :lol:

 

[superfreak]

Yep. He's about twelve.

uncommonly tall for a twelve year old

 

[Kruszakus]

Ian, do I have to call you my home hog, or is you still my home dawg?

 

[Ian]

Rick - shush old man

Home dawg can stick, Krus.

 

[Rick]

Rick - shush old man Home dawg can stick, Krus.

Somebody finally said it. I was starting to feel it too.

 

[jameslongo]

uncommonly tall for a twelve year old

It's trick-photography using a Chihuahua-sized piglet :lol:

 

[Boxer_Bug]

Well, right now it's got 332 views.... meaning there's lots of interest, just few who participate. I guess it's kind of like mud wrestling or going down the Falls in a barrel...

ya mud wrestling we come to see not to jump in. lol.

 

[Opivy]

I don't see the trick photography picture ya'll are talking about...

anyways, here's me looking nerdy - most people guess I'm 13-14 but I'm actually much younger!

 

[yen_saw]

Bringing back an old thread.

Day hunt for mantis at New Caney, Texas

Night hunt (Light trap) at Brookeshire, Texas with friends (Dustin where are you now?!?!). I am the one with white cap.

Bug hunting at Kingwood, Texas... about to leave

Night hunt (light trap) at Savannah, Missouri

 

[Rick]

Nice pics Yen. The Dollar General sign in the background looks funny.

 

[yen_saw]

Nice pics Yen. The Dollar General sign in the background looks funny.

Yeah i agree, very outstanding :lol:

But i hope the store will be there forever as its light at night attracted plenty of mantis and i labelled my collection based on that store too...... this is just one of the pinned collection sets

 

[Kaddock]

Yeah i agree, very outstanding :lol: But i hope the store will be there forever as its light at night attracted plenty of mantis and i labelled my collection based on that store too...... this is just one of the pinned collection sets

Yen, those are some nice mantids! Did you happen to get any live ones... New stock?

 

[yen_saw]

Yen, those are some nice mantids! Did you happen to get any live ones... New stock?

Thanks Ben, Yes there were all alive but i freeze some of them so i could spread the mantis up for further taxonomy study. I will check this batch with Carolina mantis collected from other places they somehow look different which is why i labelled them as Stagmomantis sp. for now but could still be S. carolina unless proven otherwise.

Now lets see some new faces from other forum members......

 

[sbugir]

Really cool Yen. Are those pinned mantids frozen then just pinned? I'd like to pin some of my mantids, but they always lose their color .

 

[Rick]

Really cool Yen. Are those pinned mantids frozen then just pinned? I'd like to pin some of my mantids, but they always lose their color .

That's what I do. Some of them still discolor. Not sure if Yen has that issue or not.

 

[vera_renczi]

I froze one of my sister's mismolted budwing's last night and color got even brighter than it was before. it was like, neon green. crazy!

 

[sbugir]

Scratch this, my selective reading skimmed over the word mismolt

"I hope it wasn't alive still! That would have been terrible "

 

[Katnapper]

I hope it wasn't alive still! That would have been terrible

Actually, the general consensus is that freezing mantids (or other creatures) is the least cruel or kindest way to euthanize them.

 

[sbugir]

Actually, the general consensus is that freezing mantids (or other creatures) is the least cruel or kindest way to euthanize them.

Yeah didn't read that mismolted part (selective reading ). Blonde moment , uh I mean, just a moment I've had to go through that path like 12 times now -.-