View this post on Instagram after a few months without a mantis, I pulled the trigger and got a ghost mantis from @geckoworldaustin this past weekend! I wanted to try to raise up an L2, and this one already molted for me into an L3 yesterday. She's looking less like an ant and has more of the "waving" behavior going on already. Very interesting to see the change in crypsis over molts. #mantis #mantids #ghostmantis #invertebrates #insects A post shared by Erin Burt (@erintheunready) on Aug 1, 2020 at 8:25am PDT
after a few months without a mantis, I pulled the trigger and got a ghost mantis from @geckoworldaustin this past weekend! I wanted to try to raise up an L2, and this one already molted for me into an L3 yesterday. She's looking less like an ant and has more of the "waving" behavior going on already. Very interesting to see the change in crypsis over molts. #mantis #mantids #ghostmantis #invertebrates #insects
A post shared by Erin Burt (@erintheunready) on Aug 1, 2020 at 8:25am PDT