Thank you Chris!very cool!!!
Thanks a lot Forcep!Those are some really neat photos! I have a Nikon 150mm and Nikon D7100, but my photos are far less sharp
LOL Chris! I suppose that might make for some interesting combats.With all these mantids on pretty and colorful flowers, I have a sneaky feeling the photographer is going to add in a crab spider..
Thanks a lot John, I'm really enjoying this extension to my inverts hobby!Very eye-pleasing photos!! I'm gonna subscribe to this thread, very nice specimens and your collection looks to be coming along.
-JohnD.
Thanks a lot Spepper, nice to hear!Wow, I really like this last batch of pictures! They're beautiful. :clap:
Ah, very good ... many thanks for letting me know thesitarplayer!The mantis you got from your friend is actually a Chinese mantis, Tenodera sinensis.
Haha Yeah I know, mantids are always cuddly like that. Seriously it is always amazing to me how sociable they can be with people ... no fear!Nah, its just trying to hug you.
Yeah my D. dessicata is like that. He just walks around on my hand anytime I put it in the container. If I take him out he behaves like normal, no difference at all, he doesn't even care if I move or flip over my hand.Haha Yeah I know, mantids are always cuddly like that. Seriously it is always amazing to me how sociable they can be with people ... no fear!
That's just so cool!Yeah my D. dessicata is like that. He just walks around on my hand anytime I put it in the container. If I take him out he behaves like normal, no difference at all, he doesn't even care if I move or flip over my hand.
Well, to be fair they're probably smarter than some peopleThat's just so cool!
I hate to anthropomorphize, but with mantids it's hard not to. I recently came across this, writing about his Idolo ...
From my experience they are smarter than people give them credit for. Mine freak people out, there will be a conversation going on and it will sit still and turn its head to whoever is talking like he's following the conversation - even people that are 10+ feet away. And it will head-bob at people sometimes and if you do it back even once he will try his hardest to get you to again even in a room full of people!
BTW, I don't know why I didn't notice it until I shot some macros of one of my Idolos but as of the last molt (L5) it suddenly has these wonderful antennae! So it turns out I'll have a pair to attempt to breed.
Idolomantis diabolica, L5 male
Might have to change your name to Papilio the Pitfighter!LOL No I did NOT!!
It's a focus stack, only one mantis on each image.