My mantid collection

[Malakyoma]

I decided instead of making a new topic every time I want to post new pictures, I'd make one general topic and keep updating it with new pictures. Here is where I am with my collection aside from what you've already seen.

 

[GhostYeahX]

nice room !! so tidy

my room is full of trash!

 

[Malakyoma]

nice room !! so tidy

my room is full of trash!

It only looks tidy lol. I took a good angle on the photos.

 

[SilentDeviL]

I decided instead of making a new topic every time I want to post new pictures, I'd make one general topic and keep updating it with new pictures. Here is where I am with my collection aside from what you've already seen.

keep up the love for mantis there is much more species for you to try haha ... Soon if u know what I mean ....~~~!!!

 

[Malakyoma]

keep up the love for mantis there is much more species for you to try haha ... Soon if u know what I mean ....~~~!!!

Let me know when the Archimantis, Kongobatha, Tau, Pseudocreo, and Pnigomantis ooths hatch

 

[Malakyoma]

Nov 15th update. Took some pictures of the new P. griffinii nymphs (Thanks SilentDeviL!) and the new mantid room since I housed them separately. Also got a nice shot of Sudowoodo my Popa spurca.

 

[MandellaMandy123]

Your nymphs are really cute

 

[Malakyoma]

November 22nd Update: includes Popa spurca, Polyspilota griffinii, and Hierodula majuscula

Popa: Sudowoodo is newly presub, and bonsly is L4 now.













Griffin: This one looks female to me



















majuscula: Also looks female to me

 

[aNisip]

Nice update! :clap: I like the story of them all molting at/near same time...thats really cool! I like the majusculas, such a quaint yes voracious specie!

 

[Malakyoma]

Its funny, after I posted these shots ANOTHER griffin started molting. thats 5 of 7 in one day going to L3

 

[Reptiliatus]

Nice photos. Too bad you don't have a male Popa to go with those females (or do you?). All the Popas you shared photos of are evidently female.

 

[Malakyoma]

Nice photos. Too bad you don't have a male Popa to go with those females (or do you?). All the Popas you shared photos of are evidently female.

I have another L4 nymph that I didnt photograph for this set. Its possible that one is male, and I hope it is.

 

[Malakyoma]

My red majuscula is so violent! she saw a hydei out of the corner of her eye and CHASED IT DOWN. running a popsicle stick and a half to the sponge where it sat. didn't even wait for it to move she just grabbed at it. then did it AGAIN with the next hydei I put on that sponge.

 

[Malakyoma]

November 24th update: Includes Red/Brown Majuscula, Creobroter pictipennis subadult, and Popa spurca subadult.

red/brown majuscula: L3 nymph. I think he's male. what do you think?











Jade, pre-subadult female Creobroter pictipennis. Half eats a cricket then drops its still kicking body. What a waste. Guess the mealworms will enjoy it. Nice shot of the wings forming as well.





Sudowoodo, pre-subadult female Popa spurca. Decided she would pose for me today. cant get over how big she is.

 

[Malakyoma]

Jade half eating a cricket:

 

[agent A]

the creobroter subadult is abt to molt to adult

 

[Malakyoma]

the creobroter subadult is abt to molt to adult

I figured. she hasnt eaten much lately except for that cricket. Its been long enough since her last molt to expect one too. I thought she was presub not sub though.

 

[agent A]

I figured. she hasnt eaten much lately except for that cricket. Its been long enough since her last molt to expect one too. I thought she was presub not sub though.

i can tell u havent updated your sig lately because jade is L7 now

 

[gripen]

She is definatly sub not pre sub.