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PostSubject: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeMon 7 Apr - 18:51
Mimikri - nice hunting strategy for a predetor.
Sometimes you take a picture and if you watch it later in a more exact way, you recognize that there is more to see what you first thought.


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On both pics you see an Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus)
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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeTue 8 Apr - 4:27
Funny! I've seen these guys with hundreds, maybe even thousands, in small boxes by a importer in Europe (Belgium) years ago. For a while i didn't notice them, thought it where flowers or so Embarassed

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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeSun 13 Apr - 12:47
that's two cool pictures.
i never saw a mantis that beautiful.
mantis are anyhow cool animals.
how they move, just elegant!!

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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeSun 13 Apr - 16:57
Hi Benny,
here in Europe you can get a lot of different species of this insect group.

The strangest and best looking mantis is in my mind --> Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii

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A much better photo, but not mine - because of the copyright only the link.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4014031

You can put them in a tree and if they have enough food they will stay there and you can watch them the whole summer at the same place.

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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeSun 13 Apr - 19:04
Hey Jörg,

the Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii is the most amazing looking Mantis you can find i think.
that looks like a monster from any BAD horror movie, if it would be just much more bigger.
Don't you think so??

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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeMon 14 Apr - 6:25
Absolutly - it looks like an alien. cyclops
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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeMon 14 Apr - 12:41
some other crazy stuff available what you can show?
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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeTue 29 Jul - 18:28
Benjamin Lutz wrote:
some other crazy stuff available what you can show?
Hi Benjamin here some Links of my favorites: (I don´t know if it´s allowed to post them here, they are not mine)
Deroplatys desiccata:
http://www.mantisonline.eu/pics/arten/deroplatys/desiccata/adult/weibchen/25.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.eu/pics/arten/deroplatys/desiccata/adult/weibchen/30.jpg
Gongylus gongylodes:
http://www.mantisonline.eu/pics/arten/gongylus/gongylodes/adult/weibchen/18.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.eu/pics/arten/gongylus/gongylodes/adult/weibchen/27.jpg
Hierodula membranacea: (you can keep adult females on any plants free in your flat, they don´t move) Smile
http://www.mantisonline.eu/pics/arten/hierodula/membranacea/adult/weibchen/03.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.eu/pics/arten/hierodula/membranacea/adult/weibchen/20.jpg
Hymenopus coronatus:
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/hymenopus/coronatus/adult/weibchen/55.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/hymenopus/coronatus/adult/weibchen/62.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/hymenopus/coronatus/subadult/maennchen/17.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/hymenopus/coronatus/subadult/weibchen/67.jpg
Popa spurca crassa:
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/popa/spurca/adult/weibchen/18.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/popa/spurca/adult/weibchen/22.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/popa/spurca/adult/weibchen/27.jpg
Sibylla pretiosa:
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/sibylla/pretiosa/adult/weibchen/90.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/sibylla/pretiosa/adult/weibchen/102.jpg
Phyllocrania paradoxa: (One of the coolest in my opinion)
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/phyllocrania/paradoxa/adult/weibchen/05.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/phyllocrania/paradoxa/adult/weibchen/29.jpg
subadult in brown: http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/phyllocrania/paradoxa/farbvarianten/br02.jpg
in green: http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/phyllocrania/paradoxa/farbvarianten/gr11.jpg
in black: http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/phyllocrania/paradoxa/farbvarianten/sw20.jpg
Pseudempusa pinnapavonis:
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/pseudempusa/pinnapavonis/adult/weibchen/05.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/pseudempusa/pinnapavonis/adult/weibchen/01.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/pseudempusa/pinnapavonis/adult/weibchen/28.jpg (calm very unspectular ) Very Happy
Taumantis sigiana:
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/taumantis/sigiana/adult/weibchen/37.jpg
http://www.mantisonline.de/pics/arten/taumantis/sigiana/adult/weibchen/03.jpg

I hatch some of them if you got any questions PM me Wink

All the best,
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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeThu 28 Aug - 14:13
thanks jakob.
crazy animals ha?!
i really think they are just awesome looking "ALIENS"

thanks again!

Greetz Ben
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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeThu 28 Aug - 16:01
Mantids are really cool to have, they´re like eating machines Smile

I have had some species but also one of my favourites are Phyllocrania paradoxa. The closest to alien that i´ve found Very Happy

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PostSubject: Re: Mimikri - a perfect camouflage   Mimikri - a perfect camouflage Icon_minitimeThu 28 Aug - 16:14
Hi

Yeah Mantids are very cool, and it's like Ben said, they turn the head around and look into your face....and look like an ALIEN Laughing



Greetings,

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