The Feeding

[darkspeed]

Here is a video I made of a ferocious little Chinese Mantis I found.

http://s128.photobucket.com/albums/p194/da...FEEDING0001.flv

 

[joossa]

Here is a video I made of a ferocious little Chinese Mantis I found.http://s128.photobucket.com/albums/p194/da...FEEDING0001.flv

I don't think that's a Chinese Mantid. Nice video though.

 

[robo mantis]

That is a female carolina

 

[Kruszakus]

First, you have to narrow down the list of mantids from China hehehe - no, seriously - we need the real name of the mantis - written in latin, these are the oly correct ones.

 

[robo mantis]

It is not from china! It is American native! Called Carolina mantis! I've been keeping years i would know! Not sure on latin name though.

 

[darkspeed]

I had originally ruled out Stagmomantis Carolina due to me being in TX. Since all the ones I have ever seen around here look just like this one, with the mottled camoflauge look going on, I figured it had to be something more common to the US as a whole as opposed to just the eastern states. If they are Carolinas, we have a rather abundant population of them here in east TX... Whatever species they are, the winged adults are quite dificult to catch as they fly very well, and when disturbed they take to the trees.

 

[Andrew]

Scientific name would be Stagmomantis carolina.

C'mon robo, you ought to know this one! :lol:

 

[OGIGA]

Definitely looks like stagmomantis, but it's hard for me to differentiate between the stagmomantises.

 

[Rick]

Hi Darkspeed. Be sure to introduce yourself in the introductions forum.

Looks like s. carolina to me. Doesn't look like the s. limbatas I have.

 

[buddhistsoldier88]

A WAY YOU CAN TELL IS THAT THE CHINESE HAVE A GREEN STRIPE GOING DOWN THE WINGS. sorry for the caps...by the time i noticed i was too far to erase...

 

[robo mantis]

Scientific name would be Stagmomantis carolina.C'mon robo, you ought to know this one! :lol:

hahahha i'm not good with those scientific names

 

[darkspeed]

Here's some more shots of her eating.

 

[darkspeed]

Here are some more feeding frenzy fotos... Grasshoppers are a challenge, as they are extremely strong. This one kept kicking her with its jumping legs, but she was smart and turned her attention away from devouring its abdomen long enough to chew off its legs so it couldnt kick. It truly amazes me to how intellegent mandits really are..