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awww.....the poor thing...
its an adult too, holy crap! what sp. other mantis lovers?
Just leave it be.
In all probability you'll end up tearing or cutting the leaf to get it open. If you manage to release the insect without inadvertently killing it yourself it has probably suffered enough internal injuries that it will soon afterwards anyway.
In all probability you'll end up tearing or cutting the leaf to get it open. If you manage to release the insect without inadvertently killing it yourself it has probably suffered enough internal injuries that it will soon afterwards anyway.
how can you tell its an adult?
it cant be more than 1 inch long..
I would just gently open the trap to let it go..
should be easy to pry the trap apart without harming the mantis..
Scot
it cant be more than 1 inch long..
I would just gently open the trap to let it go..
should be easy to pry the trap apart without harming the mantis..
Scot
Emperor Griffin says.."Thums Up!"
I'm in South East Asia. Although having said that, I still rarely see a mantis. Maybe 5 times in my life of 27 years...
But then again maybe I'm just not looking for them in the right places that they are to be found!
My pops told me to let nature take its course and not pull it out of the trap. I felt like telling him, in the nature takes its course way, nature would never see a VFT growing in South East Asia... but that's another topic.
I came home today and the mantis arms were limp. I think he's gone home...
But then again maybe I'm just not looking for them in the right places that they are to be found!
My pops told me to let nature take its course and not pull it out of the trap. I felt like telling him, in the nature takes its course way, nature would never see a VFT growing in South East Asia... but that's another topic.
I came home today and the mantis arms were limp. I think he's gone home...
joossa
Aklys
I'll try to get an ID on the mantis. I'll post an "edit" here if I am able to obtain one.
EDIT: Okay, here goes... It is possibly a Tropidomantis (Eomantis) sp..
Picture for comparison.... (Female on the left, male on the right).
EDIT: Okay, here goes... It is possibly a Tropidomantis (Eomantis) sp..
Picture for comparison.... (Female on the left, male on the right).
its a pretty mantis...but yes as was stated a mantid is an adult when it has fully developed wings. Males have a tendency to fly more than females as they are lighter.
There's no way it would survive, even if you freed it the second you found it.
The trap is all sealed up and it's probably lost many organs. If it did survive, it would be extremely tired and handicapped, it would quickly starve or be eaten by a faster predator or another mantis. Maybe if you wanted to save the trap a bit of trouble you could pull it out but the mantis wouldn't survive.
If you keep carnivorous plants you can't honestly be sad when it kills a normal prey item, no matter how big an insect it is. That's what they do.
The trap is all sealed up and it's probably lost many organs. If it did survive, it would be extremely tired and handicapped, it would quickly starve or be eaten by a faster predator or another mantis. Maybe if you wanted to save the trap a bit of trouble you could pull it out but the mantis wouldn't survive.
If you keep carnivorous plants you can't honestly be sad when it kills a normal prey item, no matter how big an insect it is. That's what they do.