Shoultsy11 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) Hi anyone keep praying mantises post pictures of them here!!! I keep praying mantises I think we have about 400 Edited October 2, 2015 by Shoultsy11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 What type do you have? I haven't got any pics of when I kept a few but I had African flower, orchid and double-shield mantids. I intend on getting a nice Idolomantis diabolica at some point in the future as they are stunning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tish Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 I Don't keep Mantis, but I have come across them during my Macro photographing days. I took quite a few photos and had recently share in another forum. Here's most of them : Boxer mantis (Hestiasula sp.) A very tiny mantis that mimic ants I think. Mantodae when I was on holidays in Taiwan in some mountains. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Awesome pics! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) nice photos. we have about 30 mantises (and counting) 7 Phyllocrania paradoxa 3 Stagmamantis theophila (breeding) 4 Pseudocreobrotra wahlbergii 5 Hierodula majuscula 3 Empusa pennata 6 Deroplatys desiccata But on the 4th october (tommorow) we will go to the AES show in kempton park london,and hopefully get some Blepharopsis mendica writing all those lantin names was exhausting. I will post some photos soon Edited October 3, 2014 by Shoultsy11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 here is my dads specialist heated cabinet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelae Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 I had a pet one that lived in the greenhouse (it could leave at anytime but I fed it on occasion), it was an albino, which was why when I devastatingly found it dead on a bench I preserved it in a jar with a native stick insect that also lived in the greenhouse, they seem to like the citrus tree's near the greenhouse, in particular the stick insect that live on bottle brush tree's and lemonade tree's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I had a pet one that lived in the greenhouse (it could leave at anytime but I fed it on occasion), it was an albino, which was why when I devastatingly found it dead on a bench I preserved it in a jar with a native stick insect that also lived in the greenhouse, they seem to like the citrus tree's near the greenhouse, in particular the stick insect that live on bottle brush tree's and lemonade tree's. do you have any pics of it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulsar Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 i used to keep quite a few different genus but had to give up after a house move and a job change possibly illegal but i brought a few ootheca from india and sri lanka about 20 years ago gongylus gongoliodes fron sri lanka some stick mantids from india that i was unable to identify and what i think was some Hierodula membranacea from india too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2014 Yeah I think it is illegal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulsar Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 (edited) Tenodera sinensis i think. i remember throwing the ootheca's in the bin thinking that they had been laid and were infertile.came home from the pub a few days later and thought i was seeing things as the whole house was covered in a few thousand tiny mantids then remembered i hadnt emptied the bin.looked in the bin and they had all hatched Edited October 10, 2014 by pulsar 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropicbreeze Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 All "mine" are kept in the garden. Some I haven't identified, but this is a Hierodula sp. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 (edited) Tenodera sinensis i think. i remember throwing the ootheca's in the bin thinking that they had been laid and were infertile.came home from the pub a few days later and thought i was seeing things as the whole house was covered in a few thousand tiny mantids then remembered i hadnt emptied the bin.looked in the bin and they had all hatched That taught you not to throw ootheca's in the bin. What did you do to them all? Edited October 29, 2014 by Shoultsy11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tish Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Here's 1 at the grass of my work place from last week, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Do you know what species it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tish Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Sorry i got no idea. not much people here can identify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulsar Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Tenodera sinensis i think. i remember throwing the ootheca's in the bin thinking that they had been laid and were infertile.came home from the pub a few days later and thought i was seeing things as the whole house was covered in a few thousand tiny mantids then remembered i hadnt emptied the bin.looked in the bin and they had all hatched That taught you not to throw ootheca's in the bin. What did you do to them all? some i grew on to adults i sold a lot to some localish specialist pet stores and sold some what was left a few months later to a guy i met in insect/reptile show that was on in a university near me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted June 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Hi anyone keep praying mantises post pictures of them here!!! I keep praying mantises I think we have about 400 and counting... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoultsy11 Posted October 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Idolomantis diabolica, shed successfully to adult a week ago. Just got it's colour coming :-) (sorry my photography skills are rubbish!) Sent from my XT1021 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Kulig Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 (edited) Hi, i have had a Hierodula membranacea from India. She lives 10 months on a big Yucca in my living room. This species is very easy and nice in open culture on a bigger plant....I feed this nice species with pests from the pet shop with forceps. In the end time it had a lenght of 11cm. Best regards Tobias Edited November 17, 2015 by Tobias Kulig 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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