found ant mantis nymphs

cocogecko · Subject: found ant mantis nymphs 8/22/2009, 6:11 am

found two ant mantis nymphs but released them because they were too small and I have no food small enough for them.

1st nymph

2nd nymph

They are completely black when just born

(These 4 were found a few weeks before I found the 1st 2)

**Mr. Mordax** · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/22/2009, 7:57 am

Awesome!

Mantids rock. Whereabouts did you find them?

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cocogecko · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/26/2009, 4:31 am

Mr. Mordax wrote:

Awesome!

Mantids rock. Whereabouts did you find them?

They were on top of leaves Very Happy

**Mr. Mordax** · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/26/2009, 7:03 am

I'm guessing from some of your other posts that those leaves were growing in Malaysia?

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**bjaeger** · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/26/2009, 8:45 am

Awesome and interesting find! Very Happy

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***Connie*** · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/27/2009, 11:33 pm

wow I didnt even know they existed!

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rafiqos · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/28/2009, 7:42 pm

Supercool. Have you had success keeping them? Where do these mantis live? I've never met one in person before. Lol.

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Slarky · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/28/2009, 8:23 pm

Very cool mantids you found there

cocogecko · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 4:38 am

rafiqos wrote:

Supercool. Have you had success keeping them? Where do these mantis live? I've never met one in person before. Lol.

I did not have anything small enough for them to eat, so i released them.But once I found an adult female that laid an ootheca.The ootheca hatched and I released the nymphs Very Happy

Venom · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 9:47 am

Isn't there a specie that loooks like ants as nymphs, then they look like scorpions as adults?

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**Mr. Mordax** · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 10:08 am

A lot of species look like ants as nymphs. Probably handy, as ants tend to attack en masse so looking like one may help keep the predators away.

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Venom · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 2:39 pm

I wonder how that evolved.

I don't understand how evolution works when it comes to camoflauge.

There had to be a first one that looked like a flower, ant, leaf, twig to survive and pass that trait.
Didn't there?

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scorpion111 · Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/30/2009, 9:05 am

yeah, I don't get how they "know" what to look like for camouflauge... it's weird.

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