Video of mantis fishing
Forgive the quality this movie. My computer can barely play the HD movies from my 7D, let alone process them, and the white balance looked perfect on the camera lcd and when playing in QuickTime, but now it's yellow. Anyway, this was my first and probably last attempt at making a movie of this. The mantis would crawl inside of the bowl, but it wouldn't grab over the edge, so I laid out a dock for it to walk on. I gave it a couple more seconds after I set the camera down and the mantis had just frozen and was still hanging upside down. I think maybe it would work if I drain a couple inches of water out so when it's hanging upside down it won't be submerged, but when stretched out it can still reach a fish. I probably won't mess with it again though.
Video of mantis fishing
Forgive the quality this movie. My computer can barely play the HD movies from my 7D, let alone process them, and the white balance looked perfect on the camera lcd and when playing in QuickTime, but now it's yellow. Anyway, this was my first and probably last attempt at making a movie of this. The mantis would crawl inside of the bowl, but it wouldn't grab over the edge, so I laid out a dock for it to walk on. I gave it a couple more seconds after I set the camera down and the mantis had just frozen and was still hanging upside down. I think maybe it would work if I drain a couple inches of water out so when it's hanging upside down it won't be submerged, but when stretched out it can still reach a fish. I probably won't mess with it again though.