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19 comments to "Insect Macro Photography."
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Sylvain Romiguier
June 26th, 2006 at
8:55 am
I’ts a praying mantis, in French “mante religieuse”.
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Doug Hightower
June 26th, 2006 at
9:05 am
In Alabama it’s called “What the F*** is that?”
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mac justice
June 26th, 2006 at
9:56 am
Looks like he made a praying mantis + butterfly mashup. I don’t think there’s anything like that that actually exists in nature.
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tud wurtherly
June 26th, 2006 at
11:10 am
I don’t know what it is. Send it to me and I’ll have Dr. Foot take a look at it for you.
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megmeg
June 26th, 2006 at
12:15 pm
it’s a mantis, “Stagomantis carolina” I believe, or it could be a young mantis after a molt. Young mantids go through ten molts before adulthood, and for a time afterwards they are milky white in color. Though the most widely seen color of mantis is green, they can range in color from green to tan to pink.
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Duval
June 26th, 2006 at
12:56 pm
No, it’s probably real, likely some sort of flower mantis. There’s a nice pic of an Indian Flower Mantis on Wikipedia for comparison. This one is not identical but I’d guess it’s from a similar tropical species.
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Jacob
June 26th, 2006 at
4:52 pm
I love the pattern on the wings… but holy crap, if I saw that thing I’d run for the hills.
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Grahame
June 26th, 2006 at
5:08 pm
Hi folks,yes it is a praying mantis,Pseudocreobotra Wahlbergii,the spiny flower mantis.
Its a native of south east Africa.
Quite popular amongst “bug” hobyists.
Have a look here for another stunner of a photo
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4011123.
A relation to the Indian flower mantis,Creoboter Meleagris. -
Loopy Loo
June 26th, 2006 at
5:26 pm
Both cool and icky at the same time.
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tud wurtherly
June 27th, 2006 at
6:58 am
We know this: Bullets don’t affect it- and it lives only to hate.
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Marr
June 27th, 2006 at
7:55 pm
Looks suspiciously like the hive queen from the Ender’s Game series to me.
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Leslie
June 28th, 2006 at
11:29 am
Beautiful and colorful. But I must say if one ever landed on me, I’d probably cause myself some serious injuries…
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Sub
July 5th, 2006 at
1:41 pm
You can pick those things up without any worries, no need to run. They don’t pinch very hard and usually give up trying to mess with you and just crawl around your hand trying to get away.
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heather jean smith
February 9th, 2007 at
12:02 pm
It is an African flower mantis, also known as a number 9 mantis. You can purchase them at insect shows for about $30 bucks. They make great pets. they are not normally showing their wings in defense like that one.
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me!!
March 31st, 2007 at
1:29 pm
Awwww it’s a cute little gonna-poison-me-thing i want one :D.ITs a mantis and its after it’s molt,
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Iris
January 29th, 2008 at
11:04 am
That isn`t a real animal.. look, you can see the wings don`t suit. And that`s a very strange colour, too.
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Barry Kok
February 5th, 2008 at
4:59 pm
Wow, the ignorance to anything foreign… I work most of my time around African jungles - this is a real praying mantis - and if I had my external HDD with me then I would upload a simmilar image I took in Guinea Conakry in 2004 - of the same species of mantis. The one I came across displayed a much deeper emerald green body, but a mantis can alter its colour in the same way as a chameleon to better disguise itself when hunting their prey. Excellent photo and well done!
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Bored
February 19th, 2008 at
9:17 pm
jeez guys. it’s real, you should look up the orchid mantids. they’re beautiful in color.
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spirit wolf
April 8th, 2008 at
1:07 pm
its a cool bug
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