Can't we get along.

[SSimsswiSS]

Snapped this early morning photo, showing my two passions together.

 

[Miss Lily]

Lol! Did the mantis end up as breakfast?

 

[Texas Panther Man]

awesome shot man.

 

[rcutchens]

That's AWESOME and a GREAT picture as well! I have the same question as one of the other posters though, how does the mantis keep from being breakfast???

 

[SSimsswiSS]

Lol! Did the mantis end up as breakfast?

I did'nt wait around to see.

That's AWESOME and a GREAT picture as well. how does the mantis keep from being breakfast???

Thanks, the mantis will usually stay really still. Becoming one with the branches. This seems to confuse the chameleon. But any movement and the mantis is back on the breakast menu.

Here's same subject without using flash.

 

[Chuck G]

One of my males had a mantid in his cage for 2 months and I would feed them at the same time. I never thought it would happen but as they say,truth is stranger than fiction. Great pics of the dynamic duo!

 

[YumeKitsune4]

The look on your cham's face is like, "Live it up mantis...your days are numbered" lol

Great shot =)

 

[laurie]

I can hear the music from jaws as the parsons advances .....

 

[ColorCham427]

Steve!! I still can't believe nothing has happened with those adult mantids you give your Parsons!! Out of pure curiosity, why do you choose to leave their strikers? Nutritional value is anywhere found in them? Just want to mimic how nature is?

 

[SSimsswiSS]

Steve!! I still can't believe nothing has happened with those adult mantids you give your Parsons!! Out of pure curiosity, why do you choose to leave their strikers? Nutritional value is anywhere found in them? Just want to mimic how nature is?

I'll have to dig up some video. If you could see it in person, you would see the parson's tongue instantly traps and makes the mantis arms immobile. Almost every video in the wild shows them eating a mantis. ( not to say, their not staged ) But if so, why not another insect.

 

[jessica]

Resistance is futile!

Wonder if the Mantids plea was enough lol