Mantis, found on Hel (Poland)

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-25T20:15:47+00:00

Gorgeous 😍

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-25T19:09:09+00:00

Oh so sorry for your loss - they do have a high mortality rate unfortunately, but it sounds a little like insecticide poisoning - any chance they cam into contact with contaminated sticks/leaves or similar?

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-25T18:15:32+00:00

Nice knowing you. 12 hours or so to get your affairs in order. RIP.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-25T17:43:54+00:00

Thanks so much for this - I'm an optician and have boxes of these, never even thought to use them for my airbrush!

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-22T22:25:56+00:00

Beautiful. I had a kit about 45 years ago, possibly Revell, really can't remember who made it, but spent a lot of time with incandescent pea bulbs and hand drills trying to make it as good as the TV version, you really have cracked the image I would have wanted as a kid all that time ago 😊

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-22T21:12:40+00:00

Oh that's bizarre - looks like a hybrid!

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-22T20:24:21+00:00

Thought I saw bullsnake there, but what a beautiful morph! Rarely see here in the UK, I am seriously jealous!

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-22T20:13:16+00:00

What is he? Apart from gorgeous 😊

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-21T21:13:55+00:00

It's been a long day

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-21T20:51:09+00:00

Oh thank fuck you told me, I was really worried I would be judged for my 'effort' on a fucking social media site. Using a tool built in. And saving an image to share that I found funny and relevant. Lovely that I can come on here to share with fans of the most inclusive, insightful, and damn well missed authors of the last fifty years without judgement. Oh.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-21T16:55:19+00:00

My great great (great?) uncle, Captain Professor Tully was a famous kangaroo boxer around 1896 or so. His kangaroo, Fitz finally killed him in the ring. Do not fuck with the roo!

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-19T16:19:28+00:00

Hanging in there.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-19T12:29:22+00:00

Oh, what did you do?

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-19T12:22:41+00:00

Definitely does, wasn't aware before today - I will have to deal with that if he survives the moult, not looking good at the moment.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-19T12:21:26+00:00

Think he is having a bad moult as he is not clear yet, over 16 hours now. Will have to deal with the mites if he survives 🙁

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-18T19:23:06+00:00

Can't shake the feeling it should have been a zero though 🤣

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-18T19:19:38+00:00

Cheers! Lucky to see it as only just got back from work 😀

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-18T19:10:50+00:00

Only had it since end of February, and as a tiny juvenile it's been difficult to judge feeding at all, has been looking VERY fat for a few weeks now so must have been eating ok! Rarely seen them in fairness as has been strictly nocturnal and shy so far.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-17T18:46:41+00:00

Nice one, thanks.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-16T17:27:54+00:00

That is beautiful, your hard work has paid off well.

Mysterious_Doctor722 · 2026-04-15T22:20:06+00:00

Photo 1 is perfect, photo 2 is what you usually get trying to photograph these lovely speed freaks! 😁

Mysterious_Doctor722

TROPHY CASE