My experience collecting in Hong Kong and Malaysia
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Cool mantis!!!oh i left out this nice species, i believed it is a Ceratomantis sp.
Yup with dense tropical jungle there mean to be huge bugs. But i can see deforestation eating up lot of natural habitat. Cameron Highlands is one good example, plenty of commercial hotels nowadays.
gadunka888
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whoa can i buy the dead mantises from you?
ABbuggin
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They used to be in the hobby only 1-2 years ago. Haven't seen any in the hobby for a while.
I only brought back few species, and ooth of another species. I am currently concentrate on the dead leaf. I should have a good chance on D. lobata since i have quite a few adult females, but i only got one D. dessicata female. The next best species would be the Malaysian shield mantis since i have close to 9 medium-large nymphs. THe adult female orchid appear very fresh and so i hope to pair her up again, i would hope to breed this species again after dropping them when the market was flooded with orchid 3 yrs ago. Also outside chance of breeding Leptomantella, Tropidomantis, and Spilomantis since i only have 2-3 nymphs of each species.
Yea those dead mantis have seen better days i am sure. Mr. Yeh can find those bugs easily i guess so he doesn't care much.I love the hind wing pictures... both the metallic and the other headless one! And the cidadas...
I have lot of extra dead leaf mantis (D. lobata) specimen you can get them for free. PM me for details.A day before flying back to Hong Kong from Malaysia, i started to pack them at my hometown, my son took some pics while i was packing.
D. dessicata nymph pair
Some of the D. lobata and a lone D. dessicata adult females
Also few adult male D. lobata
Gave them a greal meal before the trip
Checking out this green mantis which I gave it to my friend in Hong Kong later
Another D. lobata
The Malaysia shield mantis
More good news on the wild collected dead leaf mantis. The lone adult female D. dessicata was releasing phremone and the insect zoo was kind enough to give me an adult male, the pair mated yesterday yay!
The D. lobata pair from wild also mated but i lost a male. THe mated female produced an ooth the 2 days later.
Almost done
The proud mother and ooth
The adult male is still hiding in the net cage after mating. As usual the male of this species is a big sissy.
The D. dessicata female was hiding this morning like in the wild.
Ah apparently she is laying ooth
Has been a while since I last breed D. dessicata, lets hope I will have some nymphs soon.
So here is the end of my entire collection trip it turn out to be much better than I thought. Certainly, i would love to have another bug hunt trip in the future, but maybe in another place. Maybe some place in Spain or France, yeah the Empusa!
The D. lobata pair from wild also mated but i lost a male. THe mated female produced an ooth the 2 days later.
Almost done
The proud mother and ooth
The adult male is still hiding in the net cage after mating. As usual the male of this species is a big sissy.
The D. dessicata female was hiding this morning like in the wild.
Ah apparently she is laying ooth
Has been a while since I last breed D. dessicata, lets hope I will have some nymphs soon.
So here is the end of my entire collection trip it turn out to be much better than I thought. Certainly, i would love to have another bug hunt trip in the future, but maybe in another place. Maybe some place in Spain or France, yeah the Empusa!
revmdn
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I want some.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you with the D. lobata and dessicata!!!
how cool!
Morpheus uk
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lol, starting to make me sick how much luck people are having with mantids
pohchunyee
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Yen is a lucky man who know where and how to get these mantises......!!!! Anyway anyhow..... D.dessica and D.lobata will be in the trade for a nice price again!! Wooohooooo
Thanks Becky. Both finger crossed here.I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you with the D. lobata and dessicata!!!
Most likely not. The one in hobby was from Indonesia originally. I have noted marking (near the thorax/abdomen joint) on the recently captured shield mantis not shown on the one currently in the hobby, the shield might be slightly wider too but these batch is still pre-sub/sub stage.
So was it my luck on finding the mantis or breeding the mantis that made you sick? or bothlol, starting to make me sick how much luck people are having with mantids
Lets hope so Chun, we will see. Time to wait for the ooth to hatch, hopefully.
No substrate. But i mist 2-3 times a day on the net cages that hold for the Dead leaf species. It is warm and humid here in Southern Texas though.
OGIGA
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I'm so surprised that you managed to get all those containers over here!
d17oug18
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well kept secret, and if he let it out to us all, we all know we would use the same method getting ourselves caught and him not being able to get anything here =) so lets just let him keep that secret so we can all get exotic pets =)
Don't you think he would have collected also the "rarer" species if he had found them? There is a reason why they are so hard to find. By the way, finding Hymenopus in the forest is rather difficult. I would like to see your success in mantid searching!
first off i dont have the resources to make trips like that and would have no place to stay or anything if i did go someplace foreign even if there was a possibility of me ever going someplace like malaysia or anywhere outside the us!I am lucky to get by with the little that i do have!
