Sally's mantis thread start 05/13

[devetaki9]

Omg sooo cute!!!

 

[sally]

11/20 The first male T elegans molted to adult. His brothers are almost there. The male nymphs are a nice pink and green color. The R valida are much bigger than I expected. I love the hierodula majuscula coloring. most are green and red, but I have one little male that is a rusty color. I did end up with 2 female Orchid nymphs and 1 male. I have a pretty peach colored Taumantis

 

[sally]

Rhomboders valida male and female both molted to adult The male is really blue.

 

[sally]

Taumantis male molted to adult, yay!! The Rhombo is a pretty good size.

 

[AxolotlsAreCoolToo]

Thats what my tao looks like too

 

[sally]

Deroplatys lobata laid her 1st fertile(hopefully )ootheca Trying with the Taus mating, nothing yet, He is still a little young,but she is def ready

 

[nirotorin]

Congratulations! Hopefully it will hatch for you.

 

[sally]

Just received my Heterochaeta Mantids. They are really active. Orchid females are growing fast. Just some pics of my current favorite atm And his brother is a greener version

 

[nirotorin]

Very nice looking mantids. Congrats on getting that Heterochaeta. It's pretty interesting looking.

 

[sally]

Received some Miomantis binotata and some Pseudocreobrotra Wahlbergii today Really excited. All the Rhombos are adult but 1 male and 1 female. The Heterochaeta survived an almost disastrous molt, whew. What a great day

 

[DinehCaveman]

one of my chaetas didn't get it's head or raptorial arms out of the exoskeleton on the L4 molt, very disheartening to see a U shaped mantid . It's siblings made it fine and now one is L7 and is male according to Yen's posts on chaeta sexing.

 

[sally]

one of my chaetas didn't get it's head or raptorial arms out of the exoskeleton on the L4 molt, very disheartening to see a U shaped mantid . It's siblings made it fine and now one is L7 and is male according to Yen's posts on chaeta sexing.

I just had my cat mantis molt in my hand. I was freaking out. He fell but I got to him right away. He is ok. I am sorry abt yours. It is so awful when a mismolt happens.

 

[Extrememantid]

Congrats on the rhombo's! I thought you had stalii? Did it turn out to be valida? I love mine.. 3 of em just molted to L4

 

[sally]

Congrats on the rhombo's! I thought you had stalii? Did it turn out to be valida? I love mine.. 3 of em just molted to L4

I had stalli last summer. Now I have the valida I love them also! And my girls aren't to temperamental so I can handle them easily. My stalli female was a biter and a pincher,lol

 

[sally]

I had Stalli before, now Validas.

 

[sally]

T elegans 1st generation female molted to adult. I can't post pics for some reason.... Hatch of unicorns

 

[SilentDeviL]

Congratz om hatch oh ya ~~~!

 

[sally]

The first attempt at mating Rhombodera validas. She was calling so I thought I would try it. 1st male not ready yet. 2nd male right to it. I didn't witness the connection, so I will try again as well. He survived the night

 

[sally]

Sealed the deal!

 

[sally]

Some random shots of the mantids... New adult female H majuscula. She beat the males to adult Old lady mama Orchid. My heterochaeta male needs a mate soon....