Mantis pictures

[Steven]

Hey, i had some fun with my camera,... my 2 species of mantis i got at the moment:

 

[Steven]

Phyllocrania paradoxa

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[Steven]

Deroplatys lobata

 

[Steven]

Deroplatys lobata

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[Steven]

some other deroplatys pictures

 

[Steven]

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[blackacidevil]

Nice......very nice!

I love those pics......I hope to someday be able to start caring for mantids when I have a better set up but for now they are just too delicate for me.

 

[phoenixxavierre]

Those are some awesome mantids, Steven!

Best wishes,

Paul

 

[Wade]

Those are two of my favorites. I would love to get into Deroplatys again.

Wade

 

[Steven]

Those are two of my favorites

mine also, and of course the Gongyles gongylodes
but never had the chance to get one, or they were to expensive.

Paradoxa aren't hard to get here, deroplatys a bit harder to get your hands on

 

[ines68]

great pics... nice mantis

 

[fatbloke]

cool pics tried to keep mantids before but had no luck with them but i want to keep these jungle nymphs

fatbloke

 

[Steven]

@Fatbloke:

do you have allready some jungle nymphs or are you gonna get some?

i've got 1 adult male left, the female didn't make it trough her last molt

greetz

 

[fatbloke]

gongyles

i havent got any yet but hopefully i will get some at the next insect fair which gives me time to read up on them and sort a tank out for them


fatbloke

 

[Immortal_sin]

awesome pics! Make our little mantids we catch in our yard seem boring and tame!
Ours are bright green, but they don't have the interesting bodies like those...
We usually catch one at the beginning of summer, watch it grow, and then release it a couple months later.
They are super cool bugs!