Caught these wild mantids long time ago but as you'll know they die after a good 8-9 months. These pics were taken atleast 3 months back i think.
I got them to lay their ootheca which had about 10 eggs per ooth. Beautiful mantids and i released most of the nymphs while i fed off the rest to...
Find quite a few of them on the desert grasses here....Very hard to spot though and they look a bit more like grasshoppers although the nymphs look more elongated and horse-like...No problems feeding them, chams love em.
This is what they look like over here...
In about 3 weeks time I'll making a trip down to Salalah, Oman . I am hoping to find and study ch. Arabicus as not much is known about them. I am super excited already.
For those of you who don't know, ch. Arabicus naturally occurs only in the Middle east and it's gonna be so interesting to...
I finally got a imageshack account and i figured since i never posted pics of Melea's offspring...My last post in which i tried to upload pics was a fail but i hope this works...
Here she is :)
One of her boys
Sweetshot
p.s; these are from last winter