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

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

A praying mantis was helped to the cooler shade of a bush after being found toppled and distressed in the summer heat while crossing from the garden floor to concrete, soon becoming active again and leaping down into the foliage. #TenoderaSinensis #ChineseMantis #PrayingMantis #Mantis #Insects #Conservation #BugsMatter #BugLife #BugLivesMatter #SaveTheBugs #Gardening #Entomology #Zoology #AnimalBiology #Biology

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

☆~ 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

TW INSECTS FEEDING TIME WORMS Motaro and Goro (both L7) 🦗🦗🦗🦗 No luck at all with the mealworms, but they both instantly took a waxworm again. Goro completely ignored the mealworm after he figured out what it was. Motaro actually struck it and punctured it in his grip, but Motaro was in my hand and I didn't want juice on me, but while I was transferring him back to the tank, he dropped the mealworm and had no interest in chasing it down. Motaro also struck at ME the second time and threw a hissyfit before he realized I was offering something that wasn't a squirmy piece of shit (those mealworms are hard for even Me to pick up!) So. Hopefully the waxworms aren't what made Sheeva sick. (Idk if they like have too much sugar content or something, idk, I'm still learning about everything, just wanted to give an update on my two babbies while I have them in front of me.) There's a ton of mealworm skins and waxworm skins in their cups so I'm gonna clean those out and make sure to take out the expired ones before they go back in the fridge. How do I keep these guys alive longer? I also gotta look up how to care for the fruit fly culture too. 🐛🐛🐛🐛 I'm fucking tired man. Got a lot on my plate right now and I'm super overwhelmed by everything I have to do, and I'm not being thanked for any of the work I'm doing at this house. There was a whole incident with a coffeemaker last night (and I don't even drink coffee from a maker) and I get insulted because I don't know how this specific digital model works to clean it, like, I was extending a courtesy by asking rather than assuming. Mf... 🦗🦗🦗🦗 #prayingmantis #preyingmantis #chinesemantis #tenoderasinensis #mantis #mantises #mantids #mantidsofinstagram #bug #bugs #insect #insects #insectkeeping #insectpets #bugkeeping #pet #pets #petstagram #feedingtime #waxworms https://www.instagram.com/p/CRPJzIHs7FD/?utm_medium=tumblr

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