Never seen this color on a spiny Flower before:

[rs4guy]

http://www.educatedearth.org/viewer.php?id=5931&cid=97

Very pretty!

 

[gripen]

Hmmm looks photoshopped to me. Of and they got the ID wrong it is a Blepharopsis.

 

[warpdrive]

it was on the UK forum if I'm not mistaken. if my memory is also not as bad as I believe it is, then the person changed some colors in the enclosure to reach this effect of the mantid...but I have no idea if even something like that can be done by just visuals.

Harry

 

[CoolMantid]

I wish mantids could camoflauge like Chameleons

 

[happy1892]

It looks very real! When I saw the title I thought it would be this picture.

 

[brancsikia339]

Saw this a while ago. It can be done by keeping the mantids' surroundings purple

 

[Bryce08]

Saw this a while ago. It can be done by keeping the mantids' surroundings purple

hmmm....still not sure lol

would be cool though

 

[agent A]

Hmmm looks photoshopped to me. Of and they got the ID wrong it is a Blepharopsis.

That's not a Blepharopsis :lol:

Note the antennae, wingbuds, and color of legs/claws

 

[gripen]

That's not a Blepharopsis :lol:

Note the antennae, wingbuds, and color of legs/claws

Look at the image again...

 

[lunarstorm]

Saw this a while ago. It can be done by keeping the mantids' surroundings purple

What study or basis do you have to make this claim? The concept that mantid colors can be influenced by the colors in their surroundings is false but I'd love to be proven wrong.

 

[Bryce08]

What study or basis do you have to make this claim? The concept that mantid colors can be influenced by the colors in their surroundings is false but I'd love to be proven wrong.

thats what im saying lets have a crayola box of mantids

 

[nicoledougherty]

Looks like it's been tweaked with a photo editor.

 

[gripen]

Looks like it's been tweaked with a photo editor.

Yup look at the flowers the seem to good to be true.

 

[happy1892]

It looks like a Pseudocreobotra to me. Link.

 

[nicoledougherty]

http://youtu.be/uOBk6xK7KaE Thought it might be tweaked by a photo editor but what is this? If this link doesn't work than look up Alien Praying Mantis drunk and dancing in Uganda on YouTube (don't pay attention to the drunk part just the color )

 

[agent A]

Look at the image again...

hey gripen, where's the blue and orange on the forecoxae to say bleph?

 

[gripen]

Photoshopped like the rest of it.

 

[CoolMantid]

It a P. whallbergii or the other closely related one. I dont think it is a Bleph gripen

 

[CoolMantid]

Look closely at the wingbuds. Even the title says Purple Spiny Flower Mantis so why doubt them???