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Title: Praying Mantis Post by: valhalla on 29-Sep-09, 10:30:17 AM I was deadheading my marigolds Sunday evening and look who was there! Can you see the raindrops on him?
Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Mirta on 29-Sep-09, 11:14:18 AM Beautiful!
:spider: Mirta Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Donna on 29-Sep-09, 11:15:09 AM I was deadheading my marigolds Sunday evening and look who was there! Can you see the raindrops on him? Now that's a surprise....cool...thanks Janet. :thumbsup: Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: valhalla on 29-Sep-09, 12:51:16 PM We saw :foxbinocs: one flying yesterday - that was cool! :cool-045: I think we know who ate my garden spider, too. :spider:
Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Paul Hamilton on 29-Sep-09, 01:43:48 PM Great mantis!
Thanks, Paul Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Mirta on 29-Sep-09, 02:16:32 PM I´d believe your mantis is an european one, Mantis religiosa. Do you know if I´m correct?
Mirta Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Aafke on 29-Sep-09, 03:31:26 PM I was deadheading my marigolds Sunday evening and look who was there! Can you see the raindrops on him? Hi Janet, I like him and yes I saw the raindrops on him, great!!! :2thumbsup: And I like your marigolds, but what is deadheading? Is it cutting out the dead flowers? :rose: :falcon2: greetings Aafke Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: valhalla on 29-Sep-09, 05:13:00 PM Mirta and Aafka - I don't know the genus (spelling) for my mantis - suspect male due to size (if my brains are correct the female is larger) - this one wasn't monster-sized.
Deadheading is when you pinch the dried up blooms off the plants. I drop them back in the ground and they will grow new plants, which helps to double the growing season on some plants. I'm deadheading mums now. Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Paul Hamilton on 29-Sep-09, 09:17:39 PM The European Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa) is so well established in the US that it has been made the official state insect of Connecticut, where I grew up. We still have plenty of kinds of native mantis. Here is a Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
Paul Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Donna on 29-Sep-09, 10:14:18 PM The European Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa) is so well established in the US that it has been made the official state insect of Connecticut, where I grew up. We still have plenty of kinds of native mantis. Here is a Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Paul Paul is the one you posted the same as this one I took last year? Here is the pic. Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: valhalla on 30-Sep-09, 06:32:15 AM I think that Paul's mantis is the one I posted a few weeks ago. Very Cool! :cool-045:
Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Donna on 30-Sep-09, 06:40:06 AM I think that Paul's mantis is the one I posted a few weeks ago. Very Cool! :cool-045: Oh yeah, your stick thingie..... :poke: Some are brown and some are green... :confused0083: My neighbor was weeding her garden back in July and she came across a very small mantis. I never heard such a blood-curdling scream....(she's afraid of a flea). :stupid: Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: valhalla on 30-Sep-09, 08:11:45 AM Some are brown and some are green... :confused0083: I didn't know that they came in different colors, :sherlock: which reinforces my purpose of joining this group and that was to learn. A good thing and we have fun, too. :clap: Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Mirta on 30-Sep-09, 12:29:57 PM Mantis religiosa, the european mantis, can be ID by a black spot in the inner side on the first segment of the first pair of legs. Sometimes black has white in the center, but not always. I´ve found this link with a picture where you can see the black in the base of the first coxa: http://estaticos02.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2007/06/27/1182922631_0.jpg Males have a thinner abdomen than females, that looks like with wide hips... :D Mirta Title: Re: Praying Mantis Post by: Judi on 30-Sep-09, 10:57:15 PM Mirta,
That's very interesting! The mantis we have in So Cal are not European Mantises though, just the normal plain ones. I do get babies occasionally around the yard...they're so cute! I had a female on my car's front windshield the other day that decided to go for a short ride :indycar: with me. She lasted almost half a mile before she decided it was time to get off! |