Pics!

[SGcvn69]

 

[hibiscusmile]

Nice pics, and yea both look like boys, but u never know!

 

[LauraMG]

Nice pictures! Only a Chinese mantis can make brown look awesome! You really had the perfect background to highlight their markings in the first 2 pics. Just beautiful!

 

[ismart]

Nice pics!

 

[Ghostie]

Sweet pics!

 

[SGcvn69]

Hah! It was just their deli cup and my Macbook as their background!

Nice pictures! Only a Chinese mantis can make brown look awesome! You really had the perfect background to highlight their markings in the first 2 pics. Just beautiful!

 

[LauraMG]

Hah! It was just their deli cup and my Macbook as their background!

Perfect! Sometimes the best things are accidental like that!

 

[SGcvn69]

This one has 5 spiracles on its underbelly.

6 spiracles on this last one.

 

[SGcvn69]

Molt!

The new mantis after a molt!

Giving me the evil eye.

 

[MantidLord]

Man I can't wait to get mine. Awesome

 

[Jodokohajjio]

Hey SGcvn69,

What are you feeding them in the pics?

 

[SGcvn69]

Hey SGcvn69,

What are you feeding them in the pics?

Aphids. They look like mantis watermelon

 

[Jodokohajjio]

Cool, did you catch those, or do you have some sort of setup to raise them?

(also, I didn't say it before but was thinking it...nice pics!)

 

[Ghostie]

Cool molt photos! He's getting huge already.

My little shields are advancing quickly as such too.

 

[SGcvn69]

Cool, did you catch those, or do you have some sort of setup to raise them?

(also, I didn't say it before but was thinking it...nice pics!)

Yeah I caught them...well...they aren't exactly hard to catch LOL My self sown sweet peas in my containers in front of my house got aphids. They didn't seem to be bothering the plant too badly so I left them alone. I don't spray stuff and even if I did it would only be a horticultural oil so I knew they were safe. I don't think you can raise them w/o the help of ants? I could be wrong...

 

[SGcvn69]

Cool molt photos! He's getting huge already.

My little shields are advancing quickly as such too.

Actually they just look big in the pics LOL They are both maybe 1cm or less. Just got an African praying mantis today at the reptile store! I was told they were the largest? Not sure what kind...

 

[SGcvn69]

Here are some pics of the newbie (African mantis, largest, Ischnomantis gigas?):

So far he/she just looks like my Europeans, but it is definitely bigger! You can't tell in the pic cuz I've zoomed in so close, but she is about 3/4" long-ish.