Some of the inverts - Page 2

Ms. Medusa · 02-16-13, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by GarterPython

Awesome pictures I love the orchid mantis

I agree! Plus the flower mantis! What awesome creatures! All of them are beautiful!! Amazing close ups on some of them!

NBLADE · 02-16-13, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by shaunyboy

the flower mantis is beautiful

the chinese mantis,actually looks chinese imo mate

cheers shaun

The flower mantis do look great, blend right in when in a bunch of flowers aswell, and lol.

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Originally Posted by DragonsEye

Some very nice critters ya got there.

Thank you

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Originally Posted by Ms. Medusa

I agree! Plus the flower mantis! What awesome creatures! All of them are beautiful!! Amazing close ups on some of them!

Cheers, i do like my macro and super macro shots, the flower mantis are the hardest to get a good picture off, as they are very small and unlike many mantis wont stay still long enough for me to get a good one, it often blurs out.

Herpophiliac972 · 03-13-13, 04:44 PM

Awesome pictures, love the mantids. I used to have some of those, but the guy I was getting them from had a mite problem. I haven't gotten any since the summer, but I hope to be hatching an egg sac sometime this spring, and keeping some of the little guys. There is an abundance of Mantis religiosa and Tenodera sinensis in my area, I usually keep the latter. I hope to start catching some wild specimens, too. I live out by the farms, so insects and spiders are everywhere. I absolutely love it. Beautiful collection, by the way. Love the tarantulas. I am not allowed to have those as of yet, but we will see how negotiations transpire...

Revenant · 03-13-13, 11:50 PM

Love the mantid pictures. I'd also like to see more photos of the orange baboon. What a nice color!

NBLADE · 03-14-13, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Herpophiliac972

Awesome pictures, love the mantids. I used to have some of those, but the guy I was getting them from had a mite problem. I haven't gotten any since the summer, but I hope to be hatching an egg sac sometime this spring, and keeping some of the little guys. There is an abundance of Mantis religiosa and Tenodera sinensis in my area, I usually keep the latter. I hope to start catching some wild specimens, too. I live out by the farms, so insects and spiders are everywhere. I absolutely love it. Beautiful collection, by the way. Love the tarantulas. I am not allowed to have those as of yet, but we will see how negotiations transpire...

Thank you, and ah cool, it would be nice if i could go out and catch wild mantis, would love to do more field herping, but very limited over here unfortunately. It did take some negotiating to get my first tarantulas aswell lol, I eventually won her over.

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Originally Posted by Revenant

Love the mantid pictures. I'd also like to see more photos of the orange baboon. What a nice color!

Thanks, I'll try and get more of the baboon, it is very tricky, one of the best looking spiders in my opinion, but he webs heavily and tunnels alot, normally only catch a glimpse of a leg sticking out of a burrow or an orange blur when he grabs food and drags it back inside lol, but i will see what i can do.

Herpophiliac972 · 03-17-13, 08:28 AM

[QUOTE=NBLADE;826581]Thank you, and ah cool, it would be nice if i could go out and catch wild mantis, would love to do more field herping, but very limited over here unfortunately. It did take some negotiating to get my first tarantulas aswell lol, I eventually won her over.

Yeah, with the tarantulas. It has been the same situation with my parents. They think I am insane, can't figure out why I want to catch little spiders and frogs and snakes and bring them in, much less why I would want "big furry, ugly spiders" in the house. I will not stop trying though. I have some ideas...