Odontodactylus scyllarus

sweeet pic!

Thanks.... I now have a new desktop background!

awesome pic....too bad mantids aren't shrimp. but if you can enter yours, cozmo is going in

is it a male or female, judging by the pic it looks to be a she

Nice shot. What glass are you using?

Great shot! You gonna enter that in the photo contest?

LOL I see you have. I am sure you will win, I put my sexys in the contest but IMO not even close to that shot of yours. You should send it to National Geographic. My sis did that was some pics she took at the San Diego zoo. Got published. Was pretty cool. Breathtaking picture.

great shot

the combination of colors is just astonishing

sparth

Thanks guys...

Travis, yea... they're not technically "shrimp" ... i figured i'd give it a shot.

Matty, yep it's a female.

Instrance: it's regular glass, nothing special.

Helfrich: never thought of the national geographic thing. my pics aren't that good, i just get lucky once in a while.

Thanks again for the comments.

This really is the best pic that I have seen of a mantis.

yeah monte used to be a great green color but now her colors have gone blan on me, im not really appreciating it

my O. Scyllarus has always been brown...

Here's a picture with flash of my mantis acclimating when I first got her:

http://i11.tinypic.com/3z6jy4k.jpg

Well this pic is totally NG worthy IMO.

Well this pic is totally NG worthy IMO.

UCHIHA that pic is FING AMAZING!

Very cool!

i vote!!

Lucky makes me wish i had a mantis but amazing shot

this is an amazing photo. best mantis pick i've seen