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YAPT: Baby mantis are small.... *pics*

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Um, wow. How did you get that lighting? Awesome pics.

Aperature Priority AE mode, Flash: On, 1/60sec, f/7.1, ISO 50, -1 Exposure Compensation.. plus dusk(was outside) = black background. 🙂
 
cool shots. my A70 is coming tomorrow. any advice? i want to be able to take good macro shots of my reef aquarium
 
Cool! I hatched a batch of baby mantids once. In the end, only two big ones were left 😛

You can feed 'em other insects to prevent fraticide.
 
I remember when I was a kid finding one of those light brown foamy looking things they make for their eggs on a tree branch. Not knowing what it was then I stuck it in a jar and was surprised the following spring when hundreds of those little guys came out of it. I was expecting some kind of moth/butterfly.
 
Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Where did you find a baby mantis?
In my jar full of mantis egg sacks. 🙂

I estimate I've let go about 100 so far. Should be around 3-400 hatch all together.
 
Originally posted by: Linflas
I remember when I was a kid finding one of those light brown foamy looking things they make for their eggs on a tree branch. Not knowing what it was then I stuck it in a jar and was surprised the following spring when hundreds of those little guys came out of it. I was expecting some kind of moth/butterfly.
lol..

I've only ever found 2 or 3 full grown mantis around here.. Never had seen an egg case before I ordered them off eBay. 😀

I got 2 Asian and one European eggcase.

The European mantis are little badasses! Much more aggressive than their Asian counterparts. They'll chase the asian ones around, lol...
 
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