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A green Praying Mantis. This is a Chinese Mantid or Mantis (Tenodera aridfolia sinensis). It didn't mind posing for me. I think this is a female. It's about 4 inches long with the wings covering the entire back. #Tier #animal #insect #PrayingMantis #ChinesePrayingMantis #mantid #macro #Makro #green #grun #vert #カマキリ
The Chinese mantis, is native to Asia, specifically Japan, India, and Indonesia. It was introduced to the United States by humans in the late 1800s and now is common throughout the United States, especially the eastern United States and California. Today, The Chinese Mantis can be found throughout most of Asia; it also has been introduced into Australia. It is common throughout the Oriental and Nearctic regions.
Amazing armored bugs!!
Chinese Praying Mantis, an introduced species in the US, and a formidable hunter. I relocated this one from a buddleai bush where he was laying in wait for a butterfly to come along.
Last one of this fella.
The head of this guy is approx the size of the eraser of an old wooden pencil. I had to get in this guys kitchen for this. He was almost in contact with the lens. Gotta love extension tubes!
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gensburg-markham prairie preserve, markham IL USA
I was so happy to spot a praying mantis over the weekend. This is the first one I've seen in two years.
Best viewed large to really appreciate the spikes on her forelegs.
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A big Chinese Mantis hanging around the garden today - literally. I moved him to the pokeweed in the hopes he won't be as likely to eat butterflies. He wasn't pleased with me.
The first time I've ever seen two males on one female mantis. Maybe they are figuring on improving the odds of at least one surviving! Hackettstown, NJ
....Michigan has two Praying Mantis. This Chinese species and a European species. Neither are a native insect. This Chinese P.M. has tan forewings with a green front edge. The European P.M forewings are uniform green with a black spot with white bullseye on the upper front legs. This one was around 6 inches / 15 cm long.
Meet Lucy, my female Chinese Praying Mantis. It's an accident that I have her. I found her crawling around in my apartment about a week ago. Either the cats brought her in, which is the most likely scenario, they've brought in other large bugs before and some of them appear unharmed, or she came in through the window I keep open a bit for the cats. I doubt this because what would draw her in? And I don't think she can fly anymore either, she's pretty big and I was told that adult female Chinese Mantids can't fly because of their size.
Anyway, I got her a tank and a heat lamp and some mealworms and have caught crickets for her and am thoroughly enjoying having her around and learning all I can about them so I can be a good mantid mommy. That's my arm she's perched on.
I decided to keep her because I wanted at first see if she was going to live at all and then rather than release her when she might die from the cold nights we're going to get any minute now I figured I'd help her live for hopefully a few more months. They can live for up to a year and I'm guessing she's at most 6 months old now. And I might get an ooth out of her that I can pass along which will increase the number of mantids out there. And I can't get enough of them.
....Michigan has two Praying Mantis. This Chinese species and a European species. Neither are a native insect. This Chinese P.M. has tan forewings with a green front edge. The European P.M forewings are uniform green with a black spot with white bullseye on the upper front legs. This one was around 6 inches / 15 cm long.
* Auto Chinon 28mm f/2.8 lens
* Fotasy M42-EOSM lens adapter
“I am a very large female praying mantid and, as you can see, I have arms of steel.”
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I didn't have the best lighting the day I photographed this mantis outside my office, but I'm happy with the way the shots turned out, considering it's the first one I've ever had a chance to photograph.
According to BugGuide.net, they have chocolate brown compound eyes at sunset, but pale tan eyes soon after sunrise and throughout the day. By the way, the dark dots on each set of compound eyes follow you around as you move; it's due to the way the light reflects off of them but fools you into thinking maybe the eyes are more human than they should be! ;-)
More shots to come this week!!
This huge mantis was hanging out in the flowers at the nature center - I've seen a lot of big mantises but this one may have been the grandmomma of them all - 5 to 6 inches long. So I assume it's a Chinese mantis - which have been photographed eating hummingbirds ;-O Pink hibiscus in the b/g.
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Large mantis about 4" long (11 cm), introduced in the 1890's near Philadelphia Pa.. I saw a lot of the carolina mantis in Florida but this is the only species I've seen in Maryland this year.
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Chinese praying mantis on my hand taken with my nikon d90.
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I captured this bug and made it pose for me in my garden.
It actually seemed attached to me. It came to me several times.
Kinda cute behavior.............
Unless it was looking for a weakness. :-)
Poor Valerie. If she has a favourite food, it's cicadas, but she hasn't had any in nearly a week, so when I gave her one this morning, she was all over it the instant I got it on the dowel and held it in front of her. Unfortunately, she was in such a rush that she didn't get a good hold on it. It didn't get away, but she sure did look funny while she was subduing it. It is a testament to the strength of a praying mantis' grip, though--they're strong!
Happy birthday to us...a lot of us! Beyond keeping the coir slightly damp, I hadn't been paying much attention to the ootheca because...because it wasn't doing anything. Well, not on the outside, at least, but inside, it was very busy making these tiny, adorable, perfect replicas of real mantids. The picture is terrible, but I'm too busy cooing and baby-talking to them to care at this moment. I'm sure there will be lots of better shots later, once I get them moved to a proper home, but it's their birthday today, so they're all very excited (and I might be a little as well) and wanted to say hello to everyone!
I may not have known the little manti-dudes were on their way, but apparently my flightless fruit fly cultures did because they took it upon themselves to experience a population explosion that my bettas could never handle anyway. With this many babies, though, the flies won't go to waste. They don't eat today because they just came into the world, but after a couple of days, they'll be ready to eat fruit flies, and I'll get them some pinhead crickets as well. That is, if I can ever stop "awwww-ing" over them! ;)
(For anyone who doesn't recognise us, we used to be this.)
Order Mantodea (Mantids)
Mantidae
Genus Tenodera
Species aridifolia (Tenodera aridifolia)
Subspecies sinensis (Chinese Mantid)
Not a great photo, but I had to laugh. Moths are generally easy targets because Valerie hangs out right under the light, and they're attracted to it, but this clever little moth found what was probably the only safe place in a praying mantis' enclosure. Even if Val weren't already occupied with eating another moth, and even if she did notice the little guy parked on her wing, she couldn't reach him because neither her head nor her raptorial legs will bend back that far. :)
This poor guy had a hard time getting his little manti-toes free of his old exoskeleton. He was stomping around, shaking that leg like he had toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his shoe. He kept turning his head to look and see whether it was gone yet, and if an insect can look frustrated, this one surely did. Honest, I was laughing with him!
(He did get completely free, but I had a pretty good giggle until he did.)
Today, I moulted for the third time, and the Manti-Mama decided to take me for an adventure in a place she called "outside". I didn't know what it meant, but when she tried to get only me out and everyone else wanted to go, too, I did recognise the words she said. I've heard those before! Here I am discovering sun. I liked it because it was nice and warm, and as an insect, I'm all about warm.
It's very late in the season, so mantises are few and far between, but when I found this lovely lady, I immediately thought of you. I had stopped by the yucca because it's usually good for a jumping spider or two, but then I found some yucca plant bugs. I was shooting them when I saw an ever-so-slight movement to my left. As soon as I made out the shape of the little "alien triangle head", I named this lovely lady mantis "Olena". I can't send you a mantis, but I can bring a virtual mantis to you. :)
Please excuse the wind and the noise of the zoom. The S3 IS does have a "silent zoom", but if you get the strap caught on the seat belt when you get out of the car and it ends up hitting the ground in a gravel parking lot with a reasonable amount of force, all bets are off.
I moulted earlier today, and the Manti-Mama was very proud of me because I am just 7cm long now. She says that's because I'm so good at catching those fat crickets and flies, and she's right--I really am. I stay very, very still until they get close, and then I do my little "happy wiggle" and strike like lightning! My wing pads are even bigger this time; I don't have wings yet, but someday, I will!
Here I am in school, sitting on the Manti-Mama's hand. Since I'm an insect and I can't read, I can't go to public school, so Manti-Mama uses Flickr to show me pictures and teach me stuff I should know. I'm learning about Japanese beetles right now. I mostly like to eat crickets and flies and moths, but Manti-Mama says these beetles are bad, so she thinks I should eat them, too. Maybe I will...I haven't decided yet.
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis) on iron weed (Vernonia sp.)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
Bless her little manti-heart. Of course I'd noticed that Valerie was rather...uh..."round" (I didn't say anything--didn't want to embarrass her by telling her she'd gained weight), but it wasn't until she refused a horse fly that I knew something was going on. She made this lovely ootheca (egg case) last night. There won't be any manti-babies because she hasn't been anywhere near a male since she beheaded (!) the one I had when they were still nymphs (my fault for trusting them together in a holding container while I cleaned her tank), but I think it's still a valiant effort on her part, and she did a great job. :)
Taken in late September (yeah, I know--I'm lazy). The sun setting behind the trees to the west didn't help my shot, but I had to try. I actually "knew" these two Chinese mantises; the male I called Benjamin, and although I never really named the female anything but "pretty little lady", I knew where to find her. Her territory was just metres from his, and in time, they did find one another. I don't think she killed him or ate his head (European mantis female does kill the male, but Chinese only occasionally). I do love a happy ending! :)
Valerie, working on her frothy creation.
(I did us all a favour this time and stripped out the audio, so nobody has to listen to me, cooing and baby-talking to a bug. Speaking of bug, ignore the tiny fly charging around the frame; he hitched a ride in with the afternoon's menu of dog-day cicada.)
When I moulted today, I had grown to three whole centimetres! That's a lot, considering that I've been alive for only three weeks. At first, I thought I might be a mutant, but the Manti-Mama has it on good authority that it's normal for my species to grow so rapidly if conditions are good. Now that we're getting bigger, we won't be able to live together anymore because we'll eat each other. It's nothing personal; we are what we are, and it's just what we do.
P.S. Yes, the Manti-Mama could use a little hand lotion, but she doesn't want weird chemicals on her hands when she touches us or the crabs, or puts her hands in the fish tanks. Besides, it's easier to hang onto her this way. :)