mantis nom noms

[ving (David)]

nom nom nom, i tase like chicken!


mmm... more chicken!


does my butt look big in this pic?

[vindictive666 (John)]

woooww nice shooting there Tex ooopss Ving


regards john

[AlexN]

amazing coloring! I've never seen a mantis like that before.

[ving (David)]

nor had i till this one came along. bleeding thing wouldnt stay still long tho... so hard to shoot!

[Whizgig (Eugene)]

Very nice pics I must say that I haven't seen one like that either, the only ones I know are green and longer in the but?

[Octane (Humayun)]

David,

Wow! Wonderful images!

Regards,
Humayun

[firstlight (Tony)]

I'm in awe of your images, Ving. Anne-Louise and I were trying to identify the type of mantis we caught a few months ago, and I remember seeing a similar mantis as yours, but do you think I can find that site again? This is the one I took of ours, much blander and not as funky as yours .

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Does anyone know how to identify these insects... ? I thought that there would be heaps of sites, but couldn't find much good info.

Tony

[rollmebackagain]

those are great pictures, but that's one ugly bug haha

[ving (David)]

hi tony, mines actually a nymph so its only about 1-1.5cm long. it will probably grow up to be a standard green or brown mantis like yours

we must have had some hatch in out cat run because i saw 3 of them

[firstlight (Tony)]

Thats why they look so different... however there are masses of different species on the net... just not much to identify them.