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

[Eli]

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Oh, taken with my lowly 2.1mp PowerShot A60.

and another for good measure

 

[Xionide]

COOL!

-Xionide

 

[Crappopotamus]

coo nice shot too. very sharp.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Oddly cute little buggers.

ZV

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: Eli
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Oh, taken with my lowly 2.1mp PowerShot A60.

I think i remember seeing him in A Bugs Life.

 

[Ikonomi]

Um, wow. How did you get that lighting? Awesome pics.

 

[upsciLLion]

Nice yin-yang finger print.

Oh, and nice picture of the mantis as well.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Where did you find a baby mantis?

 

[Eli]

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.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

I'm so going to use your fingerprints in my next bank robbery.

 

[trmiv]

cool shots. my A70 is coming tomorrow. any advice? i want to be able to take good macro shots of my reef aquarium

 

[UNCjigga]

Ah ha!! My nanotech killbots have found you!! Any minute now before they give you the Bite of Doom...

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Where did you find a baby mantis?

 

[StevenYoo]

wow, looks like CG

 

[Mermaidman]

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.

 

[Blayze]

thats cool

 

[Jynx980]

They may be small but, how do they taste?

 

[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.

 

[loup garou]

whoa, impressive work!

 

[SagaLore]

WATCH OUT IT'S GOING TO EAT YOUR FINGER :shocked::shocked::shocked:

 

[Eli]

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.

 

[Nanotech]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Oddly cute little buggers.

ZV

Nice pics

 

[AnyMal]

you better feed them or they'll feed off you

 

[Eli]

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...

 

[Maximus96]

i see they sell packs of those eggs in ACE garden section. always wanted to try but never got a chance to.