Male Idolos flight, etc.

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My fresh adult male Idolomantis diabolica.

I love how he goes into sync with the music 2 minutes into the video...

Music by Precarious. :walkman:

 
My fresh adult male Idolomantis diabolica.

I love how he goes into sync with the music 2 minutes into the video...

Thats my boy?! I'm glad you got him to such a healthy and beautiful adult. Do hope you can get him mated soon? I wish you all the best of luck.

 
Thats my boy?! I'm glad you got him to such a healthy and beautiful adult. Do hope you can get him mated soon? I wish you all the best of luck.
Yeah, that's him. Molted perfectly, as you can see, and he's very healthy and active. I hope he's into older women.

:kiss: :wub:

I should point out the other male was on loan from buginthebox. Thanx man!

 
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BTW, your greens are MUCH more vivid than mine - all my boys are more of a sea foam green. Wonder if it's environmental, or nutritional?

Also, the boys throw displays for me all the time, and love to fly, but rarely do the clicking thing (come to think of it, I don't know if they have at all). But DANG the girls love it! And it still spooks me.

 
BTW, your greens are MUCH more vivid than mine - all my boys are more of a sea foam green. Wonder if it's environmental, or nutritional?
As far as I know, mine are from the same stock as yours. The one in the first video anyway and all the females. The other male was raised elsewhere and was much smaller than our stock. Mine do get plenty of humidity and direct misting, and I generally don't add heat, so that may be the difference. Also bear in mind, the right lighting and adjustments brings out more color. I don't over saturate the color but I do enhance the contrast and color in editing. As evidence you can see my hand in the shot and the color is not unnaturally saturated.

Overall, I'd say the males are even more colorful than the females. I've also noticed that the colors fade as both sexes age. The females' mouth becomes a deeper green as they age. You could probably approximate their age that way.

Also, the boys throw displays for me all the time, and love to fly, but rarely do the clicking thing (come to think of it, I don't know if they have at all). But DANG the girls love it! And it still spooks me.
I was beginning to believe the males couldn't click until the fresh male did it for me. I would agree, the females are way more inclined to do it. Just about every female threat display is accompanied by the clicking. The male only does it if I'm picking him up (putting my hand under him) while he's threatening. Then he'll click as he strikes at me. Doesn't hurt at all, by the way.

 
i think the funny head movements are the mantids way of gauging depth.

 
As far as I know, mine are from the same stock as yours. The one in the first video anyway and all the females. The other male was raised elsewhere and was much smaller than our stock. Mine do get plenty of humidity and direct misting, and I generally don't add heat, so that may be the difference. Also bear in mind, the right lighting and adjustments brings out more color. I don't over saturate the color but I do enhance the contrast and color in editing. As evidence you can see my hand in the shot and the color is not unnaturally saturated.

Overall, I'd say the males are even more colorful than the females. I've also noticed that the colors fade as both sexes age. The females' mouth becomes a deeper green as they age. You could probably approximate their age that way.

I was beginning to believe the males couldn't click until the fresh male did it for me. I would agree, the females are way more inclined to do it. Just about every female threat display is accompanied by the clicking. The male only does it if I'm picking him up (putting my hand under him) while he's threatening. Then he'll click as he strikes at me. Doesn't hurt at all, by the way.
Yeah - I have to ammend my statements. Mine are all about the same dark green as yours now (just took time, I think). And all of mine do the threat and clicks pretty readily now. They are in a very large enclosure with lost of room to move around. They seem more relaxed (well, until I annoy them, anyway...). :)

 

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