What is this thing on this wild mantis?

[macro junkie]

These are not my pics..there jgogums a member from the canon forum..Im only uploading them to post them to see if any of u know what it is>?do any of u have any idear what this is around his neck and claws..

 

[Rob Byatt]

I would say it is a tendril off a climbing plant, my first thought was Passiflora, but I presume the mantis is African and I can't remember if Passiflora is found there

 

[macro junkie]

whats the speices called rob?

 

[joossa]

Strange... It could be a tendril. However tendrils grow slowly and would not wrap around the mantid like that in a short time without the mantid noticing. It could have also gotten stuck on it somehow.

May it's a worm of some kind? Hmmmm....

 

[Rob Byatt]

whats the speices called rob?

Passiflora sp.

However tendrils grow slowly and would not wrap around the mantid like that in a short time without the mantid noticing.

Passiflora sp. tendrils can curl a lot quicker than you'd imagine, and would continue to do so even if removed from the plant

 

[macro junkie]

i mean the mantis rob not the plant :lol: ,,what speices is it?

 

[joossa]

Passiflora sp. tendrils can curl a lot quicker than you'd imagine, and would continue to do so even if removed from the plant

That makes sense.

 

[blitzmantis]

The mantid has two pupils in it's eye!

 

[Rob Byatt]

i mean the mantis rob not the plant :lol: ,,what speices is it?

Well you never asked that

At first I thought it was a Sphodromantis sp., but now I'm not sure if it could be Hierodula. I'd need a full head shot to be sure.

 

[macro junkie]

The mantid has two pupils in it's eye!

its got damaged eyes

 

[idolomantis]

its a plant its a passiflora plant do you know what that means?!? :blink:

answer is nothing... :lol:

gnib gnab gna my ooth i hatching lalala....

 

[Borya]

Where have this photo been taken?

 

[macro junkie]

Where have this photo been taken?

not sure..i can find out tho..

 

[macro junkie]

Where have this photo been taken?

Hawaii

 

[Tunedbeat]

Could be some type of parasitic worm, I've seen them crawling out of crickets and grasshoppers. Or, it could just be as mentioned part of a plant. We may never know unless it is removed and examined.

 

[Tunedbeat]

Could be some type of parasitic worm, I've since them crawling out of crickets and grasshoppers. Or, it could just be as mentioned part of a plant. We may never know unless it is removed and examined.

 

[Morpheus uk]

Looks exactly like something planty but i would think it a parasite aswell :mellow:

 

[OGIGA]

The mantis got into a fight with a plant.

 

[Rick]

Part of a plant it appears.