Hierodula Majuscula,or Australian giant mantis.

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Hierodula Majuscula,or Australian giant mantis.
Hi :) so im designing a book for my graphic design and im doing it based how I can relate people to insects and you have a few pictures of orchid mantis I find spectacular and I was wondering if I can use your pictures for my book I just wanted some up close pictures of your orchid mantis I'll for sure give full credit for these photos as well
Hey there! That sounds really fun, and I don’t mind if you use them. My actual name is Wendy van Hoek, so if you want to use that for credits :) And if you need bigger sizes or anything, just tell me what pictures. Good luck with your book!
We went on holiday to Turkey, and my mom just asked if I had taken any photos of her. Uhm. No just.. The local wildlife..
Green Phyllocrania Paradoxa, adult female.
Phyllocrania Paradoxa, adult male.
Phyllocrania paradoxa sub adults.
Color differences between two phyllocrania paradoxa sub adults.
Hello! Been a long, long time! I didn’t have bugs for a year or so, but we’re back now with these four little cuties. Two females, two male Phyllocrania paradoxa. Or ghost mantids! These photos are horrid,they were disturbed enough by me taking them from their travel containers into their new homes.
Hello!
Hello everyone! Sorry for the long silence that has lingered here, I recently noticed I got some new followers and a few of my older photos have been going around a lot. And that makes me happy! But it also makes me realize you're here for more mantis photos.
And I can't make those right now unfortunately. I don't have any mantids, haha! I went through a stressful period in my life, and decided not to breed/buy new ones for a while. They don't live extremely long, so I'm currently simply out.
But! I do hope to get some more mantis friends in the future. I miss the company a lot. If you have any questions about keeping them or such though, I'm always open for those.
Otherwise, my personal blog is here, where I sometimes post art/reblog random things that make me laugh, etc. I am alive! Just no bugs right now.
Hello! I'm not really a bug person, but I found your blog very interesting so I had to follow. I never even realized mantids could be kept as pets so it's quite interesting to hear they have different temperaments and what not. It would be great to see some pictures of the enclosures if you could at some point?
Hello and thank you for following us! And yes, they can be kept as pets. They make for very interesting companions, and their temperaments are fun to observe.
Not sure how photo's in answers work, but if correct then above is a photo of two of my enclosures. The right one is currently empty, but the left one has my orchid female. All by herself. Since she'd eat anyone else with her. Mantids can't be kept together unless you have one of the more social species, and even then risk of cannibalism remains. An enclosure needs to be 3x the lenght of an adult mantis in height at least. So they have enough space to shed. But about my own enclosures. I keep them fairly simple. Mantids like to hang at the top upside down mostly, so they need some netting there. Mine also have netting in the back, and some of the enclosures have netting on the side. Not all species can climb glass so sometimes netting every side is best. (And they'll still try to climb the doors just watch.)
I do like to put in some fake flowers.. Because otherwise it's so empty haha! Kitchen towels for the bottom to handle humidity and moisture. Everyone uses something else for that, but kitchen towel has always worked best for me. Easy to clean up too! I used to have potting earth at the bottom of my enclosures, but I unfortunately got fungus from it. Especially combined with wood it didn't work out so well.
The bark in my left enclosure has also gone through an hour of being in an oven of 100 celcius, to make sure all bacteria and thingies are dead. Not everyone does that, I just thought that was best. The other pieces of wood are decorative pieces of driftwood I believe.
Here is my orchid enclosure a bit more upclose. She was eying me warily.
In this one I have a Parasphendale Affinis, or a Budwing mantis. She is such a great mantis btw, my oldest one at the moment too. Lives long, ferocious hunter, big eyes. But people just love those white orchids. Anyway, she has the same kind of setup, with some unfertilized ooths (unfortunately), netting and some kitchen towel.
And this is how I keep my babies. The lid of this plastic container has been cut out and replaced with netting so they have space to hang. The bottom is paper towel, again, and some simple sticks to help her climb around. Mantids shouldn't have too big an enclosure because it becomes harder to catch their food if they have too much space. So especially my babies I keep in smaller enclosure. My orchid enclosure is a bit too big for her but she catches her food just fine. Flying food tends to go to the ceiling too. The dummies.
Anyway, hope this helped!
A very bad, quick photo taken with my old camera of my orchid mantis being angry at me. I had never seen an orchid with her wings up like that, they're very impressive for a female mantis. She can also fly, but not as elegantly as her male counterpart.
I am not usually a fan of insects but I stumbled upon your blog and think it's great. The variety of mantids is amazing.
Thank you so much! Most of the bugs are my own, I love having different species. And I know the feeling, haha, insects used to not provoke the best feelings in me either. I do think mantids are the easiest to get used to, likely because they have such an easy to define front and back! And a head that turns. Very expressive critters. But since I've started keeping mantids I've been more comfortable around many bugs, it's great!
Sub-adult Hymenopus Coronatus, female.
Hymenopus Coronatus
Sub adult female
New mantids! Had a great visit to Germany last weekend, picked up some babies from the Terraristika fair.
Deroplatys Lobata, Hierodula Unimaculata and Blepharopsis Mendica
Deroplatys Truncata
Adult female
Babysitting some Phyllocrania Paradoxa. Very cute mantids.