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[minister-erik]

FACT 5: LIKE MOST MANTIDS, THEY ARE KNOWN TO BE CANNIBALISTIC (5 facts about the chinese mantis) - Composition Friday #PhotoOfTheDay #ChineseMantis #TenoderaSinensis #mantis #PrayingMantis #insect #ForestFloor #TinyNature #insects #NYwildlife #nature #wildlife #hiking #BareRockTrailLoop #SterlingForestStatePark #SterlingForest #NewYork #InsectPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #NikonPhotography #ErikMcGregor

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[coridallasmultipass]

Motaro and Goro!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I don't think I've shared any mantis pics since I switched them to semi-bioactive tanks. There are natural guava leaves (which I used to scoop up aphids when my mantises were just little toothpick tip size!), dirt, rocks, reused sticks, rolliepollies, ground centipedes, decorative moss, but no live plants or special UV lighting. Here are some pics from when I just fed them! Motaro is the first two pics, Goro in the last. That camoflage is absolutely amazing! And the mantises are a lot happier being in tanks that are clear and rectangular. I think the 'eye-rubbing' behaviour they had was due to one of them being in a cylindrical enclosure, similar to how fishbowls disorient fish. So. Lesson learned for me. It was fine when they were smaller, but as adults, they needed more space. 🦗 I had the opportunity to buy two of the large critter carrier tanks, and the mantises are much happier and seem way more relaxed and entertained by all the pillbugs I put in there. They keep killing them and then not eating them because they don't taste great or the shell is too thick? But... just an FYI... if you get these tanks, make sure the lid fits before you buy it. I spent so long in the store trying on so many lids and none of them would fit around the rim of the tank part, so I said Fuck It, grabbed two pink lids, and decided to sand them down with my dremel. They're still a very snug fit, but at least I can close the lids without harassing my mantises too much. 🦗🦗🦗🦗 #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #mantis #mantises #mantids #mantidsofinstagram #bug #bugs #insect #insects #insectkeeping #bugkeeping #insectpets #bugpets #mealworms #feedingtime #bioactive https://www.instagram.com/p/CUY-Lm6L2N3/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[mantismonarch]

Tenodera Sinensis (Chinese Mantis) #tenoderasinensis #chinesemantis #nonnative #naturalized #prayingmantis #mantid #mantodea #insect #animals #nature #entomology #alien #macrophotography #MantisMonarch #throwback #flashback

#macrophotography #insect #nature #alien #chinesemantis #mantismonarch #mantid #tenoderasinensis #entomology #mantodea #flashback #nonnative #naturalized #throwback #animals #prayingmantis

[ankhanu]

Hello, new friend. #pets #mantis #Tenodera #insects #Tenoderasinensis #Mantidae

#insects #tenoderasinensis #mantidae #tenodera #pets #mantis

[thehylianharborwave]

Well, hello there, beautiful~! Look at that cute tittle face, and those lovely eyes! And I love the vibrant green streak along the sides! #TenoderaSinensis #ChinesePrayingMantis #PrayingMantis (at Sudz Dudz Laundromat)

#prayingmantis #tenoderasinensis #chineseprayingmantis

[itsthelightlife]

I know I picked the right guy, because he didn't bat an eye when I told him three praying mantids egg cases needed to live in our refrigerator for a while. That's about 600 eggs. Time to wake up little babies! #prayingmantis #tenoderasinensis #naturalpestcontrol #organicgardening #beneficialinsects

#prayingmantis #organicgardening #tenoderasinensis #beneficialinsects #naturalpestcontrol

[minister-erik]

FACT 4: FEEDS PRIMARILY ON OTHER INSECTS, THOUGH ADULT FEMALES SOMETIMES CATCH SMALL VERTEBRATES (5 facts about the chinese mantis) - Composition Thursday #PhotoOfTheDay #ChineseMantis #TenoderaSinensis #mantis #PrayingMantis #insect #ForestFloor #TinyNature #insects #NYwildlife #nature #wildlife #hiking #BareRockTrailLoop #SterlingForestStatePark #SterlingForest #NewYork #InsectPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #NikonPhotography #ErikMcGregor

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[minister-erik]

FACT 3: IT IS LONGER THAN OTHER PRAYING MANTIS SPECIES REACHING 11CM OR 4.3IN, THE LARGEST SPECIES IN NORTH AMERICA (5 facts about the chinese mantis) - Composition Wednesday #PhotoOfTheDay #ChineseMantis #TenoderaSinensis #mantis #PrayingMantis #insect #ForestFloor #TinyNature #insects #NYwildlife #nature #wildlife #hiking #BareRockTrailLoop #SterlingForestStatePark #SterlingForest #NewYork #InsectPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #NikonPhotography #ErikMcGregor

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[minister-erik]

FACT 2: IN 1896 THIS SPECIES WAS ACCIDENTALLY INTRODUCED BY A NURSERYPERSON AT MT. AIRY NEAR PHILADELPHIA (5 facts about the chinese mantis) - Composition Tuesday #PhotoOfTheDay #ChineseMantis #TenoderaSinensis #mantis #PrayingMantis #insect #ForestFloor #TinyNature #insects #NYwildlife #nature #wildlife #hiking #BareRockTrailLoop #SterlingForestStatePark #SterlingForest #NewYork #InsectPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #NikonPhotography #ErikMcGregor

© Erik McGregor - [email protected] - 917-225-8963

[minister-erik]

FACT 1: CHINESE MANTIS IS A SPECIES OF PRAYING MANTIS NATIVE TO ASIA AND THE NEARBY ISLANDS (5 facts about the chinese mantis) - Composition Monday #PhotoOfTheDay #ChineseMantis #TenoderaSinensis #mantis #PrayingMantis #insect #ForestFloor #TinyNature #insects #NYwildlife #nature #wildlife #hiking #BareRockTrailLoop #SterlingForestStatePark #SterlingForest #NewYork #InsectPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #NikonPhotography #ErikMcGregor

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[coridallasmultipass]

TW EYE INJURY INSECTS BUGS GORO!!!!!!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOURSELF!! 😠😠😠😠 I thought it might have been a piece of poo that got stuck while molting somehow, but now that he's hardened and I can look closer, nope! It's a full on puncture!! Idk what happened, since he shed overnight. I helped him wipe it with wet paper towel and he cleared off the scab, but is otherwise still in good spirits, I think, so hopefully it doesn't affect anything more than vision. 😢😢😢😢 I put him in the sunnier window while he was drying and he's super red under his neck which is cool. And the light sage green on part of his wings is really pretty. Maybe he'll fan them out for me some day. 🦋🦋🦋🦋 Still no sign of shedding from Motaro yet, but I'm not gonna hold my breath, he's still moving around, and may not be ready yet, but I can expect him to shed within the next few days at the most. #mantis #mantises #mantids #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #tenodera #mantidsofinstagram #L9 #adultmantis #insect #insects #insectkeeping #insectpets #bug #bugs #bugkeeping #pet #pets #petstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnCOO7hyhJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[coridallasmultipass]

TW INSECT FEEDING PICS: CHINESE MANTIS VERSUS GIANT-ASS GRASSHOPPER!! CAN HE DO IT?!?! 🐜🐛🦗🦂 I keep forgetting to share these pics from like 2 months ago... I found a HUGE grasshopper when hunting for mantis food, and decided to give Motaro (F, L8, Chinese Mantis) the chance to take it down. And he did. Instantly. Before the grasshopper could even jump out of the cup. Those huge, powerful grasshopper legs were no match for the deathgrip of an adult mantis. RIP cute buggie. 💪💪💪💪 I also wanted to test how much of it Motaro would actually eat, since the grasshopper was BIGGER than Motaro. In the end, I had to actually pull away the last leg of the grasshopper because I could see that Motaro reached his limit, but was still going to try and stuff it in, and I didn't want to see my baby burst. I did make sure to check on him all the next day, too, and here I am about 2 months later, and Motaro just laid an infertile ootheca, so I feel good about giving him this grasshopper, (and about taking the last leg away - meaning, I didn't injure him by giving him this BIG opportunity.) 🥗🍲🥘🍖 It is truly amazing what these animals can do, (and it's fortunate for humanity that they are no bigger than our hands.) ... Also, why is grasshopper blood dark blue?! 🦗🦗🦗🦗 #mantis #mantises #mantids #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #mantidsofinstagram #bug #bugs #insect #insects #insectkeeping #insectpets #bugkeeping #grasshopper #insectfeeding https://www.instagram.com/p/CVox52AFmG8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[coridallasmultipass]

☆~ Just doing mantis things ~☆ TW BUGS INSECTS WORMS 🦗🦗🦗🦗 Goro (L8) is sO PURBLE. HOW DOES HE DO IT. So many parts of him are like blue fading to orange, purple and maroon, hints of dark green in his leggies! Wild colouration on his abdomen, extra spikes on his arms, widdle prawn mouf, he is so cute! AND LOOK AT THOS WIDDLE WINGS COMING IN THEY'RE ADORBS LIKE LITTLE MUSHROOM FRILLS RN!! Can't wait to see them grow bigger. Motaro (not pictured) took his worm immediately, no need to break the skin, and is happily finishing it off rn. But Goro decided to be picky again and not take it. I'm going to leave the worm, alive, unpunctured, in Goro's tank and see if maybe the chopsticks were wigging him out, maybe he'll take it on his own. I did catch a picture of a defensive strike there, tho! He wasn't particularly offended by the worm, or me, and was just seeming to want to walk around and chill. (Motaro didn't even need to come out of the tank to take the worm, like he accepted it with open spikes. He's actually eating in the tank under Goro in the pics lmao.) 🦗🦗🦗🦗 #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #mantis #mantises #mantids #mantidsofinstagram #bug #bugs #insect #insects #insectkeeping #insectpets #bugkeeping #pet #pets #petstagram #mealworm #feefingtime #worms https://www.instagram.com/p/CR7uWNfl_f9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[coridallasmultipass]

TW INSECTS BUGS WORMS FEEDING TIME 🦗🦗🦗🦗 I just watched a movie called The Swarm where some locust farmer allows her bugs to eat her. And then I go to feed my mantises and during the tank cleaning, they do the usual strike when they didn't like me moving them... bUT WHEN I MOVED GORO, HE ACTUALLY WENT TO TAKE A BITE OFF MY FINGER 😭😭😭😭 I have no doubts these hunters could take down prey much larger than them. (Like this video I saw of a mantis taking down a lizard!) Goro let go as soon as I put him near the branches on his tank, but he was sure ready to try and gnaw off my calluses. Those spiked forearms will NOT let go if the mantis is determined enough, they're like little foxtail stickers. On the bright side, both Goro and Motaro readily accepted their mealworms from the chopsticks this time with no hesitation or need for puncturing the worms. [Pictured is Motaro, L8] I may be expecting them to go into a shed after this, so I'm not sure if I should feed them again tomorrow. Maybe something small like a fly? Since I'm home again where there are flies aplenty. 🦗🦗🦗🦗 #mantis #mantises #mantids #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #insect #insects #insectkeeping #insectpets #bugkeeping #bugs #bug #worms #feedingtime #mantidsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSmgN2pdFd/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[coridallasmultipass]

Smile! (Motaro, L7) 😈😬🦗🙏 Love that funky little scorpion pose. (And he's actually "smiling" [cough-baring his fangs-cough] too.) He got mad because I turned my hand and him upside down to look him over more. The pic with the fly - he fucking missed. I held him up to the fly like 4 times and he struck 2 times and didn't get it lol. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 On a sadder note - TW PET ANIMAL DEATH - Her Highness Miss Tiny, Sheeva, died yesterday. She was sick the day before, too. I woke up and saw she had thrown up a lot (she had only eaten about a quarter of the worm I gave her on Tuesday/4 days ago). So I separated her, cleaned the whole tank, made sure she had plenty of dry fresh air, and offered a bunch of the flightless fruit flies. (I knew I'd need them!) She did catch and eat a few of them, so I was relieved she still had an appetite, and held out hope she would get better, but yesterday... She was just so lethargic and couldn't even eat the smushed fruit flies I put up to her mouth. She could only move her arms, and it was only to swat the live fruit flies away. I really tried to help feed her and prop her up, but she needed to rest. I just buried her here at my aunt's house, and it really fucking sucks having to do this. She just had a healthy shed a week prior. I don't even know what I did wrong besides be a little late for feeding! Motaro and Goro are both healthy right now! (Goro just shed to L7 yesterday!) I know Sheeva was probably a runt, but she has survived this long without any issues besides a late first shed. So maybe it was my fault. I fucking hate dealing with grief. I can't fucking do this. Not even about Sheeva, I'm still struggling with different grief from a few years ago. Anyway. Hopefully Motaro and Goro at least make it to full adulthood. Out of the four mantises I kept, these guys were the biggest and baddest of the Bigge Bois, so they were the most likely to thrive to adulthood. 🦗🦗🦗🦗 #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #mantis #mantises #mantids #insect #bug #insects #bugs #insectpet #insectkeeping #bugkeeping #mantidsofinstagram #pet #pets #petstagram #animaldeathmention https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKVMqAs4KT/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[coridallasmultipass]

Prepare to fight!! 🦗🦗🦗🦗 I know everyone's probably sick of seeing my babbies, but idc, I love em. I gave them some plant time today on my tamarind plant for enrichment and only Goro seemed to like it today lmao. He's been the most friendly of all of them! Motaro is neutral to me, and Sheeva is extremely skittish and timid (so I may just avoid handling her to reduce stress.) Anyway, in order, here are Motaro (L6, female, he/him), Sheeva (L5, male, she/her), and Goro (L6, female, he/him) lol. 🦎 Funny how my prediction from L3 was completely opposite. All the reading material led me to believe that the males grow up so quickly, so I assumed because of Sheeva's small stature she would be female and surpass the Bigge Bois later, but turns out her small stature and slow molts meant that she's male. She's either a runt, or all the male ones are like this, so without a definite other male on hand, I cannot compare them. 🦗 Even harder to tell because my mantises came from Cali and I'm here in Cali, but reading material for this species is generic for everywhere in the US, so maybe it's just a regional thing, for the males to grow up slower than the females here (or maybe at the same rate). Regardless, it's good info to know, since I'll probably want to order another ootheca next year because they are too damn cute. 🐲 ((And it's too bad I don't think I can order a different species of mantid because of living in Cali with strict import/release laws. Maybe I can find a seller IN Cali and just order the individual mantises rather than an entire ootheca so I won't have to release them? Idk.)) 🐉🐉🐉🐉 #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #bug #bugs #bugkeeping #insect #insects #insectkeeping #insectpets #pet #pets #petstagram #mantis #mantises #mantids #mantid #mantidsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZ67UnMooX/?utm_medium=tumblr

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