Local mantids have matured

[Rick]

Was walking to the car today from work and something hit me in the chest. Thought it was a leaf but looked down to find this young adult chinese mantis. Just a common chinese but was surprised to find an adult around here now. Kinda early from what I have seen in the past. I took her home, fed her and will release her in a nice area full of mantids behind my house.

 

[yen_saw]

I guess the "extra" hot weather around the midwest area speed up the growth for some mantids. Nice, i really need to drag myself out in the wood soon. I remember you caught some "metallic" green chinese mantis last year Rick, that was awsome! Hope you can find more this year.

 

[rlechols]

I found an adult female chinese mantis outside this week, too. Last year we found our first adult chinese of the season around July 20.

 

[Rick]

Just about a month ago I was finding L2 nymphs outside. They grow fast.

 

[cdub11122]

Same here. about three weeks ago i collected some small nymphs but then about 2 weeks later i wsa finding some sub adults.

 

[wuwu]

i rarely see mantids in so. cali!

 

[xenuwantsyou]

There's a pretty large population of Chinese mantids around my house. Almost all of them are 1 moult away from adulthood. Even a few adults here too.

 

[Herp13]

The one i had that died this morning was a chinese and she had molted into adult hood last night, it's been extremely hot around here in the last few months :shock:

 

[xenuwantsyou]

True, but it's absolutly beatiful in our area today. I killed about 45 minutes hunting for grasshoppers in the field behind my house.

 

[robo mantis]

no mantids around my house