Mantids and stick insects
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| Tenodera pinnapavonis | These flower mantids (Creoboter species) are common in gardens and grasslands and are voracious predators | ||
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| A mantis warming up one chilly morning | |||
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| These tiny flower mantids really do look like small flowers. I found them by a stream in a forest clearing. They are all are young Hymenopus coronatus. | |||
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| stick insect (Phasmatid) |
leaf insect Phyllium celebicum male |
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this is the granddaddy of mantises- about 13 cm. long (the biggest I've seen) |
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| there was a whole family of these up Doi Inthanon | |||
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| portrait of a stick insect | I knew it was an insect- too much like a leaf to be one | mantids are also fond of moths | |
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| Phyllium celebicum female | |||
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| what it looks like to be attacked by a stick insect | stick insect gymnastics | ||
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| Hymenopus coronatus orchid mantis (female) | orchid mantis (male) | ||
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| female orchid mantis | |||
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| portrait of a young mantid as an artist | |||
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| Thanks to Alessandro Marletta and Warren Spencer for help with the id's |