Sybilla pretiosa (cryptic mantis)

[myzticalboi]

 

[alicenwnderlnd]

Great photo's!! and a great looking nymph! well done

 

[Slinkytreekreeper]

Loving those nymphs Joeho, are they that ornate at L1 or are these slightly older?

Are they straight 100mm shots or some extra mag?

 

[myzticalboi]

Loving those nymphs Joeho, are they that ornate at L1 or are these slightly older?

Are they straight 100mm shots or some extra mag?

These are what they look like straight out from the ooths. Straight 100mm.

 

[warpdrive]

so kewl Joeho.

tonight I just noticed that my only male has been eatten. but in his place was a huge ooth. wish me luck.

Harry

 

[Idolofreak]

Nice little nymph. It looks really stealthy and quick.

 

[myzticalboi]

Nice little nymph. It looks really stealthy and quick.

You are darn right. They are really fast and if u blink, it will disappear in a blink of an eye.

 

[myzticalboi]

so kewl Joeho.

tonight I just noticed that my only male has been eatten. but in his place was a huge ooth. wish me luck.

Harry

Eccck your male got eaten? You do know males are rare in the mantid world?

 

[xbonny]

Just now I see that from one of my ooths 20 nymphs hatched! They are amazing, just like yours

Good luck with them!

 

[wyethia]

Those are just the cutest little things!

wyethia

 

[warpdrive]

Eccck your male got eaten? You do know males are rare in the mantid world?

you do know that, you can't mate mantids without having them together, right?

it's not like I ate him on a hotdog bun with pickles and onions.

my non-fertile ooths from an older female were all about 1/2" or slightly smaller. the ooth I found as a replacment was at least a full 1". I'm quite sure the female was mated, so I'm sure I'll get a few more males to play around with next time.

I do find them to be "THE" shyest mantid I own. also one of the few that females can and will fly if out of a cage.

Harry