Two chinese ladies out for measurement!

[hibiscusmile]

Really just wanted to post here to see if they show up on the front page! :tt2:

 

[lancaster1313]

They sure are pretty, I can hardly wait to see my chinese as adults, the biggest I have are at L4 now. Do you get any green ones? Some of mine are green, I wonder if they will stay green.

 

[Rick]

They sure are pretty, I can hardly wait to see my chinese as adults, the biggest I have are at L4 now. Do you get any green ones? Some of mine are green, I wonder if they will stay green.

They may but they will often change with a molt. In the wild around here I find mostly green. I probably find only one brown for every seven or eight green ones.

 

[lancaster1313]

They may but they will often change with a molt. In the wild around here I find mostly green. I probably find only one brown for every seven or eight green ones.

Are there many differences in color beetween your indoor or wild chinese mantids?

 

[hibiscusmile]

None as I have noticed!

 

[hibiscusmile]

This pic is I thought a chinese, but it does not look like the others, it has a real little face and is already 4" long and just molted a day before. The face is what throws me off.

 

[Mr.Mantid]

that face looks wierd . it looks more long than what I am use to.

 

[Mr.Mantid]

Is that a male or female? What throws me off is the last bit on the end, not sure to count the smaller sections as one big one or each individual sections.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Cant tell from that angle, and I forget.

 

[hibiscusmile]

They have molted mostly to adult an the color is very different, the color in the forearms is showing up in their thorax and the wings are a different green then we are use to seeing, must take pics tomorrow, would like Orin to have one for the show, they are so pretty.

 

[Ghostie]

I like the green "racing stripes" on the Chinese!

Nice big specimens. B)

 

[hibiscusmile]

Knollhawk, here is a post on chinese.