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cocogecko
Pandinus
Number of posts : 34
Age : 28
Registration date : 2009-01-05
| | Subject: found ant mantis nymphs 8/22/2009, 10:11 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 : 7743
Age : 38
Location : PNW
Registration date : 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/22/2009, 11:57 am | |
| Awesome!  Mantids rock. Whereabouts did you find them? | |
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cocogecko
Pandinus
Number of posts : 34
Age : 28
Registration date : 2009-01-05
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts : 7743
Age : 38
Location : PNW
Registration date : 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/26/2009, 11:03 am | |
| I'm guessing from some of your other posts that those leaves were growing in Malaysia? | |
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bjaeger
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2282
Age : 36
Location : Pennsylvania, US
Registration date : 2008-04-29
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/26/2009, 12:45 pm | |
| Awesome and interesting find!  | |
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*Connie*
Post-whore
Number of posts : 3705
Age : 40
Location : England
Registration date : 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/28/2009, 3:33 am | |
| wow I didnt even know they existed! | |
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rafiqos
Centruroides
Number of posts : 104
Age : 42
Location : Malaysia
Registration date : 2008-04-21
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/28/2009, 11:42 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 : 33
Registration date : 2009-07-19
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 12:23 am | |
| Very cool mantids you found there | |
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cocogecko
Pandinus
Number of posts : 34
Age : 28
Registration date : 2009-01-05
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 8:38 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
Centruroides suffusus
Number of posts : 2834
Age : 2020
Location : Chicago
Registration date : 2008-02-05
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 1:47 pm | |
| 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 : 7743
Age : 38
Location : PNW
Registration date : 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 2:08 pm | |
| 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
Centruroides suffusus
Number of posts : 2834
Age : 2020
Location : Chicago
Registration date : 2008-02-05
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/29/2009, 6:39 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 : 29
Location : scotland
Registration date : 2008-04-07
| | Subject: Re: found ant mantis nymphs 8/30/2009, 1:05 pm | |
| yeah, I don't get how they "know" what to look like for camouflauge... it's weird. | |
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