P. chlorophaea, O. distinctus, and Rhombodera spp.

[Andrew]

My Idolomantis arrived today!

 

[MantidLord]

congratulations! How many do you have?

 

[mrblue]

nice. looks like a female. i bet £1 on it

 

[Andrew]

congratulations! How many do you have?

Ten.

nice. looks like a female. i bet £1 on it

Let's hope you're right.

I looked in today and saw the first one molting to L3. These guys sure do grow fast! I'm keeping them inside this, in the greenhouse.

I may add more branches. <_<

Some bad pictures, I know, but I didn't want to open the cage too much because I didn't want to disturb the molting one, and I don't want all those flies flying out. You can really see just how big the L2 are in that last pic, though. An L2 Idolo is about the same size as a subadult female P. virescens

 

[mrblue]

they arent bad pictures at all! thanks for sharing.

 

[Andrew]

Another photo of the L3

 

[Ben.M]

Amazing pics, luv the size comparison 1 , must say i do have soft spot for the P.virecens

 

[asdsdf]

Oh, wow. They are huge... :blink: Adults aren't really that big compared to Giant Asians or something.

 

[collinchang635]

Yeah really nice pics! And really cool mantids!