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EGG CASING
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 The egg looks like a sparking styrofoam sculpture
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 Top view of case, you can see the hardened foam that originated in the female mantids abdomen, impressive eh?
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 From the side, looks like a piece of art to me
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HATCHING
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 A close up as they hatched. I waited and waited and one morning, the egg case had burst open!
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 Another close up of their little identical brown backs lined with light green sides
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 Here you can see the egg casing opening in its entirety as the baby mantids squeeze out
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 Profile of hte hatching, as they are already praying
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 Just crazy looking, they were too small for my iphone video camera as I did not have my macro jelly lens yet.
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 Eeks, mantid cannibalism right at birth!
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NEWLY HATCHED
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 This one's jaws look like a bird beak
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 Ha, this one could laugh it would be an evil Bela Lugosi chuckle.... mwwuuhahahaa
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 Pretty cool how they hatch as exact miniatures of the adults, except for coloring. See how the colored stripe continues right throught its eyeballs?!
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 This little guy looks totally taken by surprise
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 With this odd lighting the eyes look more like goggles
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 Holy spooky baby mantid...
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 Two new hatchlings shadow boxing
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 See how tiny they are! The netting of the cage is pretty fine.
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 This one wants to be a rapper when it grows up
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ADULTS
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 Hullo
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 I say...
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 From the front, kind of eerie with that huge split in the back
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 Pretty cool how they shed these exoskeletons, which still look like real insects, just ones that need a long drink.
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 A potential prey spotting?
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 LWho's back there..?
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 Traipsing through the shrubbery
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 I am mantid, fearedsome looking killer, especially in this light and cool backdrop
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 Not. Amused.
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 Do you hear what I hear..?
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 Full body shot
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 Welcome to my lair!
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