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cocogecko
Pandinus
Number of posts: 34
Age: 16
Registration date: 2009-01-05
 | | 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) |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 7741
Age: 26
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/22/2009, 7:57 am | |
| Awesome!  Mantids rock. Whereabouts did you find them? _________________ If your emperor scorpion stops eating, don't panic. | My reviews | My Bug Pictures | My blog Be nice -- you were a noob once, too "Never ask an engineer to explain something, because he will." |
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cocogecko
Pandinus
Number of posts: 34
Age: 16
Registration date: 2009-01-05
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 7741
Age: 26
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | 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? _________________ If your emperor scorpion stops eating, don't panic. | My reviews | My Bug Pictures | My blog Be nice -- you were a noob once, too "Never ask an engineer to explain something, because he will." |
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bjaeger
Leiurus
Number of posts: 2159
Age: 24
Location: Pennsylvania, US
Registration date: 2008-04-29
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/26/2009, 8:45 am | |
| Awesome and interesting find!  |
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*Connie*
Post-whore
Number of posts: 3705
Age: 28
Location: England
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/27/2009, 11:33 pm | |
| wow I didnt even know they existed! |
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rafiqos
Centruroides
Number of posts: 104
Age: 29
Location: Malaysia
Registration date: 2008-04-21
| | 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
Pandinus
Number of posts: 3
Age: 21
Registration date: 2009-07-19
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/28/2009, 8:23 pm | |
| Very cool mantids you found there |
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cocogecko
Pandinus
Number of posts: 34
Age: 16
Registration date: 2009-01-05
| | 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 |
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Venom
Leiurus
Number of posts: 2820
Age: 22
Location: Chicago
Registration date: 2008-02-05
| | 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
Administrator
Number of posts: 7741
Age: 26
Location: PNW
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | 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. _________________ If your emperor scorpion stops eating, don't panic. | My reviews | My Bug Pictures | My blog Be nice -- you were a noob once, too "Never ask an engineer to explain something, because he will." |
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Venom
Leiurus
Number of posts: 2820
Age: 22
Location: Chicago
Registration date: 2008-02-05
| | 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
Post-whore
Number of posts: 3455
Age: 17
Location: scotland
Registration date: 2008-04-07
| | 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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