So pink!

[Mime454]

Better molt or she'll be red soon!

 

[Montana]

That's mighty impressive!

 

[aNisip]

My orchids were ghost white a week ago, then a week of cooler temps and high RH... pink panther status just beautiful

 

[Mime454]

I've warmed mine up a lot since they were white. Like from room temp to 80+ degrees. I think that she's about to molt and that's what's causing the change, but maybe it's temperature change?

 

[hierodula]

AHHH SO PINK IM GOING BLIND!!!!!! Beautiful bro! I wish wallies got this color!

 

[sally]

Beautiful

 

[agent A]

u fed her too much beta carotene

 

[lancaster1313]

Mine are just stayng white.

 

[Ranitomeya]

Are you sure that's an orchid mantis? Maybe you're just cooking shrimp! :tt2:

She looks as though she could still eat more. Mine don't molt until they've fed until their abdomens extend past their head.

 

[Reptiliatus]

AHHH SO PINK IM GOING BLIND!!!!!! Beautiful bro! I wish wallies got this color!

P.w's can become that colour! There are various studies that have shown Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii nymphs raised on red-pink coloured flowering plants began to attain phenotypical colours similar to their environment with each passing moult. Here are a few photos to share (I didn't take them .

I currently have a batch of pw's and will be conducting an experiment of this nature with my next gen. It'll be a few months but none the less, it should be quite fascinating.

 

[Mime454]

Those are purdy!

 

[Mime454]

Subadult! Still beautiful, now bigger.

 

[RocknessMonster]

Looks like a little sassy mantis!

 

[hierodula]

wow. What a beauty Do their wings become pink to, or are they always white as adults?

 

[Mime454]

wow. What a beauty Do their wings become pink to, or are they always white as adults?

I don't think I've ever seen a noticeably pink adult. I think their whole body is always white until they start laying oothecae. Then, according to precarious, they turn pink again.

 

[hierodula]

cool