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MacroLuv
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 Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: As long as two fingers wide |
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A baby praying mantis. 
By the way, who can theft this double digitally signed photo? 
Model Canon EOS 450D
Date/time original 25.6.2008 12:18:10
Shutter speed value 1/332 s
Aperture value f/11.3
ISO speed ratings ISO 400
Focal length 100 mm
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Ken Ramos
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How cute! The vicious little thing looks so…well, helpless. Nice comparison shot Nikola.
Nikola wrote:
| Quote: | | By the way, who can theft this double digitally signed photo? |
If you mean, who can download a copy of the image, well I just saved it to "My Pictures," out of curiosity of course. 
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MacroLuv
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Ken.
Don't be fooled by her size, she is fully capable for catching flies.
| Ken Ramos wrote: |
If you mean, who can download a copy of the image, well I just saved it to "My Pictures," out of curiosity of course. |
It's OK Ken. It was intended to be a joke, you know... (double digitally signed... digit = finger... two fingers of mine).
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P_T
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: |
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Heh, that mantis looks so comfy on your fingers, looks almost like he's half asleep.
Ken's right though, that mantis is vicious!! I saw one eating a redback spider, just stuffed the spider in its mouth bit by bit. |
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salden
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Remember last year Ken. One of those attacked me and beat me up.
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g4lab
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| Quote: | | It's OK Ken. It was intended to be a joke, you know... (double digitally signed... digit = finger... two fingers of mine |
We're all too short here. You're pitching them and they are going right over our heads.
A mantis once took up temporary residency in my garage. I pointed a fluorescent magnifier ring light at him and fed him insects and took vhs video of it. And, of course I'll be ##### if I can find that tape. 
But it was alot of fun. If the bug was moving at all it just snapped it into those crushers and started eating and made short work of the victim. I tried feeding it hamburger but it was not interested. Even when I tried to wiggle it.  |
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Ken Ramos
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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g4lab wrote:
| Quote: | | I tried feeding it hamburger but it was not interested. Even when I tried to wiggle it. |
Well, just wiggle one in front of me!  I'll wait for the camera
| Quote: |  I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heniz 57 and french fried potato's...
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Ken Ramos
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Sue wrote:
| Quote: | | Remember last year Ken. One of those attacked me and beat me up. |
Sure do! Seems if I recall you wanted to take it out on me.
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salden
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Ken Ramos wrote: | Sue wrote:
| Quote: | | Remember last year Ken. One of those attacked me and beat me up. |
Sure do! Seems if I recall you wanted to take it out on me. |
It all rolls downhill Ken and that mantis was at the top of the hill, so I was not going to take it out on him..
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g4lab
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Whadidydotooya,Sue?? Did he need glasses and think he could devour you?
And I would be happy to host a Barbeque for members of this list. If any of you find yourself in St. Louis do give me a shout. |
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salden
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| g4lab wrote: | Whadidydotooya,Sue?? Did he need glasses and think he could devour you?
And I would be happy to host a Barbeque for members of this list. If any of you find yourself in St. Louis do give me a shout. |
This mantis with an attitude, is what it was I photographed his whole journey toward me. When all I seen was his head in my lens..I knew I was in for it. That thing beat me up all over my head
Nikola has more nerves than I do. I will never attempt to hold one now. The one in this image looks so sweet and innocent..but I know better.
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MacroLuv
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:45 am Post subject: |
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That's how it goes with mantises.
You offer them a finger and they grab the whole hand!
| g4lab wrote: | | And I would be happy to host a Barbeque for members of this list. If any of you find yourself in St. Louis do give me a shout. |
A Mantis party?  Too scary for Sue, I think.
And too far for me. Thanks anyway. 
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Jbailey
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You really have a neat photo!
I kept a Mantis as a "pet" for a while. A wasp I dropped into the terrerium was made short work of. Once I tossed it a fairly large earthworm.
The Mantis finally got the best of the worm, but for a while the battle was reminiscant of the statue of Laocoon! (Google the name if you aren't familiar with the myth.)
I hand fed the Mantis water from a thin straw. It was always accepted peaceably.
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MacroLuv
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| Harold Gough wrote: | I'm not very well informed about mantids but does the pair of cerci indicate a male?
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I think both sexes have it, but not sure.
We should ask Betty.
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