New mantis photos

[yen_saw]

Have more time taking photo in my bugroom since Hurricane Ike finally........

P. paradoxa

Subadult female

Subadult male

Tarachodes sp.

 

[yen_saw]

Stagmomantis carolina

This wild collected female is very "yellow", I plan to release some of her offspring in my backyard and see what is coming out of it. This species can be so colorful.

Schizocephala bicornis nymphs

Wild collected Chinese mantis adult female

Pretty good size (about 4-inches), can rival any adult Asian giant. Another species I plan to release in my backyard and see what size coming out of it.

Statilia maculata

 

[Pelle]

Nice pictures and mantids!

I like the first Tarachodes pic

 

[Giosan]

I'm in love with the Schizocephala bicornis...

 

[Peter Clausen]

I vote for the Schizocephala too! And what a GREAT name...and seemingly appropriate.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Wonderful pics Yen, and really nice color on the ghost!

 

[idolomantis]

I'm in love with the Schizocephala bicornis...

i support that...

 

[Rick]

Great pics Yen. That one looks like some kind of disney character in the face.

 

[leviatan]

i support that...

me too... Nice alien

 

[yen_saw]

Thanks all. The Schizocephala bicornis has funny face i agree, looks like cross-eye too ha! It is also pretty long, currently it is 7 cm, and few more molts to go. I was told the adult is 13 cm!! Will add more pics here when i have time to get more photo shooting in my bugroom.

 

[yen_saw]

Some pics taken this weekend. Will stop doing this due to busy schedule the coming last quater of the year.

Thesprotia graminis - last molt (male)

more next....

 

[yen_saw]

Acromantis formosana

This large chinese mantis decided to deposit an ooth in my old idolomantis cage.

Hestiasula brunneriana

L1

L2

Adult female

Hierodula membranacea

 

[yen_saw]

My subadult female P. wahlbergii is telling me she is a large crab

Finally she settled down...phew....

Another dead Carolina male...bummer!

but she got the ooth!

Nice yellowish carolina female

A camera shy Gambian bark female

Also my subadult B. mendica

Enjoy....

 

[Birdfly]

Nice collection of shots Yen, particularily the T graminis molt sequence and the large crab :lol: well caught.

 

[idolomantis]

LOL the bark mantis is like a kidbeing shy and ttrying to avoid bing seen :lol:

*whalbergii* "I'm telling ya, i tackled one this big!!!"

That thing that molts somehow reminds me of a sypiloidea phasmid...

 

[yen_saw]

Nice collection of shots Yen, particularily the T graminis molt sequence and the large crab :lol: well caught.

Thanks Gary, lucky to be at the right place and right time i guess.

LOL the bark mantis is like a kidbeing shy and ttrying to avoid bing seen :lol:

But when it comes to guiding her ootheca she keeps hanging on to the ooth no matter how i shake the branch. Not shying away....

 

[d0rk2dafullest]

AS soon as u have any b mendicas yen, plz shoot me an email or post up in classifieds, i've always wanted to care for the b mendica sp.

 

[yen_saw]

AS soon as u have any b mendicas yen, plz shoot me an email or post up in classifieds, i've always wanted to care for the b mendica sp.

hopefully i have some B. mendica to offer in the future. They are subadults right now.

Few extra existing pic in my photobuckets

Adult male Statilia maculata

Adult male Creobroter gemmatus

mating pair of Hestiasula brunneriana

Tarachodes sp female rejecting the spermaphore from the second mating

Her ootheca from the first mating (yeah i did bribe her out of her lair with juicy cricket )

Another mating pair of Stagmomantis carolina

Adult female Acromantis formosana

 

[yen_saw]

SUbadult ghost molting - my only female, and the only subadult male is about to molt soon.

Mating pics

Look like some three-headed mantis :lol: (Acromantis formosana)

The house fly is out of the mind and decided to join in

Was trying to pair up the wild caught female grass mantis which matured couple of week ago

The other male decided to join in but get no where