OGIGA's Mantis Mini-gallery

[hibiscusmile]

A lot of nice photos girl!

 

[OGIGA]

And now, one of them is laying an ootheca! Woohoo!

 

[OGIGA]

Pseudoharpax Virescens

 

[MantidLord]

congrats. Let us know how the little things make it

 

[pedro92]

They look to be Giant Asians.

 

[pedro92]

Sorry for the previous post. I posted on wrong thread. Sorry

 

[OGIGA]

The mantises are much darker now. Their color is nothing like how it was when they were just born.

 

[OGIGA]

Virescens L1

Acromantis L1

 

[MantidLord]

BTW: the ooth that the mantis was laying, looks alot like I. oratoria ooths.

P.S. Great photos.

 

[spawn]

The acromantis nymphs have ridiculously long antennae!

 

[OGIGA]

he's praying really hard!

Now he's hiding.

"Oh, there was nothing to be afraid of in the first place!"

 

[MantidLord]

:lol: Love the first pic.

 

[OGIGA]

And Iris Oratoria!

 

[collinchang635]

Wow, really nice pics! Really cool mantids!

 

[MantidLord]

Yes I was right B) . How many I. oratroria nymphs/ooths do you have?

 

[OGIGA]

I have like 7 nymphs left. :-/

 

[OGIGA]

Pseudoharpax Virescens subadult male, 2-3 hours before final molt to adult

Pseudoharpax Virescens subsubadult female eating

Unfortunately, after the molt, the wings are all messed up. It's the first time I had messed up wings.

 

[OGIGA]

And a video of it molting (10x speed)

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=1JR1SFOzfis

 

[MantidLord]

Nice video. I keep finding more I. oratoria nymphs, so now I have ten, but they're from different ooths, and at different stages (L2-L6). Good luck if you're going to breed the virascens. Are they hard to breed?

 

[OGIGA]

Nice video. I keep finding more I. oratoria nymphs, so now I have ten, but they're from different ooths, and at different stages (L2-L6). Good luck if you're going to breed the virascens. Are they hard to breed?

I thought they'd be easier. I started with 14 that came out of an ootheca and now I'm down to 4. I had 5 a couple days ago until I found one missing and one really fat so I'm assuming it got eaten. I separated them yesterday. They're easy but could be easier.