#cryptic mantis

[revretch]

Finally got good photos of Chicken, my pet cryptic mantis!!

[morbidsmenagerie]

Cryptic mantis

[riverdarling]

A hatch of gorgeous bug-eyed cryptic mantids!

[strangelyrose]

Saint Cryptic the Mantis

Acrylic and gold paint

[cyanocoraxx]

shaky hand + shaky mantis = earthquake

[p0urtoujours]

Crazy Legs by kathybaca on Flickr.

[underthehedge]

One of my adult female Sybilla pretiosa. Edit: Sibylla pretiosa, thanks to @goldynbear​ for catching that.

These are the two surviving ones from the babies I posted here: http://underthehedge.tumblr.com/post/114223711136/

A dodgy batch of food (the flies had been in the fridge a while, I thought they’d still be fine, I was wrong) killed off most of them, but two pulled through, both female alas, but hey, damn cool looking.