Mantis Photo Gallery - everyone contribute!

[exboyz04]

:? [SIZE=12pt]Sorry Ian,[/SIZE] been looking around and for the life of me i cant find the gallery, can you point or shove me in the right direction mate so i can post more pics.

cheers

michael :roll:

 

[Ian]

It is in my signature, and in the first post in the topic!

www.insectstore.com/mantidgallery

Cheers!

 

[Veggie]

Sorry if this was already posted and I missed it, but is there a deadline for turning in photos?

 

[Ian]

No, it has been made into a general photo galley, as opposed to a competition.

 

[Veggie]

Oh okay thank you

 

[ponchot]

Two wild Chinese Mantis's I saw this past summer:

 

[nepenthes_ak]

seeing as this is a photogalerie this will be my only mantis photo

*for now!*

 

[timp]

This is my Giant Asian mantis although he's only quite small at the moment. Sorry its not a full shot, the tripod was being less cooperative than the mantis. I'll try and get some better photos of him later



Click to enlarge

 

[Luke]

Heres a couple of my mantis photos

The gongylus is eating a zebra spider which happened to run past whilst I was photographing it..

 

[Ian]

Beautiful photos, thanks for sharing!

 

[timp]

Luke, what species is the second one?

 

[Luke]

timp, its a Gongylus gongylodes, also known as the wandering violin mantis or Indian rose mantis.

 

[timp]

They all look really cool. I got my first and so far only mantis recently. admitted not knowing much about them. I had no idea there was so much variety, I thought they would all look pretty much the same but it would seem theres loads

 

[Diabla]

my tattoo

also i have a new orchid mantis, so i will be taking some pictures soon.

 

[Luke]

Just took a couple of photos of my idolos,

Inicidentally as you can see this females eyes are quite dark pink, is that a sign of ill health (as in other species)? Its still catching food fine and seems quite active.. :?

 

[Ian]

What beautiful photos Luke, thanks for sharing!

 

[Diabla]

ohhhhhhhhh i love those photos.

 

[Rick]

Inicidentally as you can see this females eyes are quite dark pink, is that a sign of ill health (as in other species)? Its still catching food fine and seems quite active.. :?

Never heard of that being an indicator of ill health in any species. Looks fine to me.

 

[Ian]

I believe that dark eyes doesn't indicate illness.

I thought that the darked pigment was released into the eye when light levels are fairly low.

 

[Luke]

Ah good, I thought she was ok but I just had to clarify. I thought eyes going dark was sometimes a bad sign as I had a sphrodo who died soon after its eyes went very dark. Not a great foundation for this belief I know... :roll: