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Flower mantids are awesome! Put some colorful stuff in their enclosures (diff colors in each enclosure) and maybe they'll change colors. Mine did. I had a purple wandering jew plant in one enclosure and all green plants in the other and the mantids adopted camo colors accordingly. I never did find any yellow leaved plants I wanted to see if the 3rd flower mantid could adopt a yellowish color.
I remember seeing some pics a friend had of his Psuedocreobotra wahlbergii {Spiny Flower / #9 Mantis} nymphs that had red & purple marks on them
He had fake flowers in with them but the colors were still cool
Yep that's the species I had very pretty. I didn't wanna put fake flowers in (fake plants just bother me! LOL) so I looked for real plants with colored leaves.
Flower mantids are awesome! Put some colorful stuff in their enclosures (diff colors in each enclosure) and maybe they'll change colors. Mine did. I had a purple wandering jew plant in one enclosure and all green plants in the other and the mantids adopted camo colors accordingly. I never did find any yellow leaved plants I wanted to see if the 3rd flower mantid could adopt a yellowish color.
Do you know how long it takes them to change color
Is it a few day thing or is it over time
The way I have them set up right now I can't grow anything in the cups
But I'm going to try it with some cut flowers in water & see what happens
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Yeah I hate fake plants too but if I had any I'd give them a try for the fun of it
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