#mantises

been making a lot of paper bugs lately.

TRICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and six photos of a brown and green male Chinese mantis with black eyes. In the video it's standing on a human hand, flicking its antennae and sticking its front legs out curiously, before crawling onto the camera. In the photos, the first two show it on some dirty plastic siding, with a more top-down angle; the next three are of it on the same hand as before, one facing the camera with its front legs blurred from motion, while the other two face away and show off its wings; and the last one on a wooden surface, showing it clean its antenna /End IDs.]

Tenodera sinensis, the Chinese mantis! Specifically a male mantis. If you didn't already know this about mantises, their eyes turn black at night to help them see better!

Professor Gregorsa; American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

Sophodra; giant African mantis (Sphodromantis viridis)

Rose; Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola rosea)

Violet; emperor scorpion (Pandinus imperator)

Harvey; harvestman (Leiobunum rotundum)

Mundle; housefly (Musca domestica)

Danny; spider mite (Tetranychus urticae)

Mother Sophodra; shield mantis (Choeradodis rhomboidea)

Empusa; conehead mantis (Empusa pennata)

Bicoris; orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus/bicornis)

She has since passed away, but here's my mantis GLaDOS right after her last molt into adulthood! Even though this is the uncharismatic fauna page, mantises are very charismatic insects :•)