#Chinese mantid

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

A Chinese mantid stopped by for a snack...

#Chinese mantid #Tenodera sinensis #Tenodera #Chinese mantis #Mantidae #Mantodea #insect #snack time #bug snax #mantid #mantis #praying mantis

[celestialmacros]

First time I've seen a mantis go into full threat mode

Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis)

August 29, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

#Well I did pick him up #And he was not happy about it #bug #bugs #photographers on tumblr #chinese mantis #Tenodera sinensis #mantids #insect #insects #entomology #bugblr #nature #animals

[onenicebugperday]

@ectoparasitoid submitted: todays a very festive occasion for my chinese mantis sochi! shes got her wings and was dried off enough today for me to get a better look at her abdominal segments to learn shes a lady! hopefully the photo of her mid molt below actually attaches but im very proud of my menace for getting this far 💚🤎

Freshly peeled angel! Please tell her I'm very proud of her

#submission #insects #bugs #animals #praying mantis #mantid #molting #chinese mantis #freshly peeled angel

[bugz4evr]

Her name is Crunchwrap Supreme and I love her with all my heart

#shes my dum dum alien girl #chinese mantis #Tenodera sinensis #mantis #mantids #bugblr #crunchwrap supreme

[noirandchocolate]

Just gave this plucky little fellow a ride to the safety of a bush. A curious guy, he climbed all on my hand and arm before settling on my fingers like this.

#insects #bugs #mantids #mantis #I think he’s a Carolina mantis #looks quite different from the big Chinese mantis that visited a couple days ago to smack ants on our sidewalk

[antiqueanimals]

A Textbook in General Zoology. Written by Henry R. Linville, Henry A. Kelly, Harley J. Van Cleave. 1929.

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#bugs #insects #mantids #praying mantises #chinese mantises

[insectomoe]

I recieved the man!

His name is Pirate and he's a Chinese mantis, Tenodera sinensis.

#bug #insect #invertebrate #bugblr #invertblr #bug keeping #mantis #mantid #Tenodera sinensis #Tenodera #Chinese mantis

[sysig]

We met a darling 💕

#Bug #Insect #I believe she's a female Chinese Mantid (Tenodera Sinensis) - and one of very impressive size! #She's a local! She lives in our front yard! :D #We've actually gotten to see her a few times since this - this was our first meeting! #She'll crawl up onto the mesh of the window frames and like....sunbathe? I'm not actually sure what she's doing there lol #But she is absolutely beautiful <3 And rather friendly! #Just recently I was trying to offer her some food but she seemed more interested in climbing on me haha #I deposited her on our flowers so she wouldn't be quite so high off the ground #I don't usually get intimidated by bugs but there really is something about her intense stare(s)! I worry for my fingers hehe #But no she's been very polite and Very cute #Her little reachy-reaches and jumps and wiggles ah <3 What a delight #She's always welcome around here! I hope she's okay to keep putting up with us haha I hope we're just enrichment #She certainly is for us! #Oh yeah and shoutout to smol for letting me take pictures of her hand when she offered to the star of the show haha #She was very excited ♪ She also loves bugs :)

[mantisgodsdomain]

for the ask game, ca you do the first question for kina?

Not many people talk about her so I don't really have a idea beyond just her sprite

(for this ask game)

Yes, we can! This leans on personal HCs a bit, so we will note - we are not 100% canon compliant. More specifically, we add claws back onto mantids and we tend to have bug size differences be slightly more pronounced rather than having everyone be People Sized. We'll run through.. notable features?

1. Describe your OC physically- what do they look like? What notable features do they have, or what’s your favorite part of their design?

Large mantis. Very large mantis, in fact. The pink tends to take second fiddle to size, since being a member just about the biggest species of mantis in the Ant Kingdom (Tenodera sinensis, or the Chinese Mantis), Kina's big enough for it to be notable, even if stunting from lack of food means she's a good bit smaller than an average mantis of her species, but the second thing a bug would notice would probably be the pink.

And she is pink. A salmon-y pink, but still... pink, which is a color that's not out of the range of what people expect, what with orchid mantises being a thing, but it's still notable simply because of the mantis it's attached to.

She's tall by bug standards and pretty damn well-built, she's got runner's muscle from spending her time darting across half the kingdom, but genetics mean that she tends towards more bulky muscle more than she does the sort of sleek "runner's physique" people usually associate with that. Translated to human looks, she'd have a mild version of the sort of "movie star six-pack" that gets seen as a Beauty Ideal, as her baseline is "underfed and mildly to moderately dehydrated while doing very physical work".

She's got fairly well-cared-for claws, along with a set of purple daggers she generally has sheathed on the insides of her raptorial claws in such a way that she can "flick" them out to be combar-ready at a moment's notice. Her bandanna is a gift from Maki back when they were just starting out as explorers, but the knife setup came later. Her primary eyes are purple, but she uses her simple eyes more most of the time. Squints enough that you can't really see the color most of the time. She's got a wide, wide assortment of scars and scratches on her shell, mostly from Explorer's Association jobs, but the specifics of those vary from fic to fic - our current most consistent one would be a series of grooves cut into the inner sides of her claws from when she was still getting the hang of flicking her daggers out of their sheathes.

In less words: Large, scarred, buff pink chinese mantis with daggers strapped to the insides of her claws and a bandanna tied around her neck, generally in some state of agitation or another.

#asks #ask games #bug fables #fun fact though chinese mantises DO have a pink morph its purely the work of people selectively breeding Get More Pink #does NOT appear in the wild. it is however an offsprout of a brown morph so the genetics with her and maki check out #he didnt get the Full Pink Experience apparently but hes definitely a lot more Red than other mantises so maybe hes just that morph but dar #it does however imply that there were people selectively breeding mantises for Get More Pink at some point in the past #we tend to HC her as the descendant of lesser mantises bred for combat in the termite colosseum #doesnt talk about her heritage a whole lot. there are only two generations separating her from those bugs #and her parents are. not exactly Around anymore #papa got eaten. very tragic. mama did not stick around very long after kina and maki could care for themselves #they used to have more siblings but most of them died before making it to awakening or simply never awakened in the first place #kina was responsible for some of those. very common for mantids to eat their siblings. they were valuable food when she was a nymph #part of the reason shes so attached to maki is because hes the only family she has left #headcanons

[bug-maniac]

Bugblr, I have a question

And maybe it's stupid.

I live in the US, and Chinese mantids (Tenodera sinensis) are fairly common in my neck of the woods. They are not, however, native. These little guys are some of my favorite bugs. I love them and it makes me so excited when I see one. So needless to say when I found out there were people who killed these matids on sight because they're invasive, it really unsettled me.

I've always been under the impression that while they're not native, Chinese mantids have pretty well entrenched themselves into the ecosystem at this point. (Sort of like some of our songbirds, I think.)

So my question is this: Would killing Chinese mantids you find in the wild help them? Am I wrong to be unsettled by this, especially when I support the kill-on-sight policies northern states have regarding lanterflies?

You guys know a hell of a lot more than me, which is why I'm asking.

#bugblr #mantis #Tenodera sinensis #mantids #chinese mantis #insectblr #buggy chatter #cw animal death

[ace-spacedog]

Look at this beautiful mantid Oscar and I found today!!

I think this is a Chinese mantis given its size (almost 4.5in!). It was super chill and walked around on my arm for a while before I put it back.

#insects #bugs #praying mantis #mantid #Chinese mantis #not actually a bug don't fucking @ me

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Shadow boi

#shadow boi #praying mantid #praying mantis #mantis #chinese mantis #insect #Tenodera sinensis #Tenodera #Mantodea #Mantidae

[vynive]

like seriously, asian ladybugs are bad news. they're good at killing aphids yes, but also like every kind of native bug and caterpillar. They've almost completely outcompeted native ladybugs to the point where at least a few are now on the endangered species list. seriously, do not buy ladybugs to release online. Nearly 100% of the time they're the invasives and you're just undoing years of native population buildup by releasing them.

#also chinese mantids #tho i have seen places that sell native mantids (for the US anyway)! #i know the populations of both are basically naturalized at this point #but the least we can do is not make it any worse by pumping more into the environment

[onenicebugperday]

@thewirewitch��� submitted: Found this on a stick ion my backyard and suspect it may be from/for a bug! Not sure what exactly it is and was wondering if you might know.

Location: Ohio

Yup, it’s a mantis ootheca! This one looks like a Chinese mantis.

#submission #bugs #insects #praying mantis #mantid #chinese mantis #eggs #ootheca

[jcp1765]

what do you mean "probably the eggs will be safe in winter"

why would u word it like that

#??? #looking into the chinese praying mantis! #ive always thought mantids were neat n i saw someone on marketplace selling babies #sooooo maybe im looking into seeing how easy they are to care for

[phidippus-audax]

Well! It's a shocking 76°F here! Which means more invertebrate activity!

We found another beautiful Tenodera sinensis in the garden, back by the rhubarb! A flawless specimen...

[Image descriptions: a brown Chinese mantis is perched on my hand. The first photo shows it using my fingers, primarily my thumb, to prop itself up and look at the camera. The second photo shows the same mantis in the process of walking down my arm from a top-down view. End ID.]

#tj taulks #wildlife #insects #mantids #chinese mantis #tenodera sinensis #i swear it was thinking about jumping at one point. and it was aiming right at my face