Metallicy

[Pelle]

Well the first male is adult

Shortly after shedding

A while later

 

[BLuEz]

Wow, the coloration looks amazing! Thanks for sharing pix

 

[revmdn]

These may be my overall new favorite mantis.

 

[Pelle]

One female is close to adult

I also made a crappy video to show how fast they are

2nd adult male

Their food

 

[naeff002]

One female is close to adult

I also made a crappy video to show how fast they are

great pics, I hope she will be adult soon, so you can breed with them

 

[Borya]

Thank you for the video!

 

[PhilinYuma]

Great pix, though it would be hard not to have a great pic of this species! I enjoyed the video. It looked as though the fire bratts were hunting the mantids! How do you keep your fire bratts, by the way? I'm thinking of getting some.

 

[Pelle]

Great pix, though it would be hard not to have a great pic of this species! I enjoyed the video. It looked as though the fire bratts were hunting the mantids! How do you keep your fire bratts, by the way? I'm thinking of getting some.

Thanks. The firebratts are mostly hidden in the bark, so I removed them from the bark. that's why they were running around so much

I keep them in a 18x18x18cm plastic box with a 4x4cm airhole in de lid. A small cup with soaked tissuepaper. And a load of dry torn tissuepaper where they can crawl on.

They are under a 40W spot, so it's get's around 35-40C. And I feed them fishfood

 

[Pelle]

Adult female

A while later

 

[Pelle]

Next day

2 days later

 

[naeff002]

beautifull animal, I really love them. I already started breeding firebrats.

 

[Borya]

Why do they have these enormously huge spines on the foreleg tibia? What role does it play during the hunt?

 

[Christian]

That's the question, isn't it? I am going to publish something on the mantis foreleg soon.

 

[tier]

My question is:

Why did they decide to become such a colorful species within evolution?

Are they trying to look like poisoness wasps? Or aren't they such colorfull in their predator's eyes? is this coloration camoflage? Not for human eyes for sure! Are you going to answer this question in your publication, too?

regards

 

[Christian]

Not in that one. I will focus exclusively on the foreleg of several mantid species.

 

[revmdn]

Stunning mantids.

 

[Ghozt]

W T F are those ?

I want some !

 

[Precarious]

Unbelievably beautiful! :wub:

We need these in the states ASAP.

Get on it, people!