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All grown up My little Molly is all grown up now. She had her final molt 2 days ago. It&#039;s hard to believe that she was all squashed in her exoskeleton! She now has wings too!<br /> She&#039;s loving the mealworms at the moment - she&#039;s got such an amusing personality :) Hard to believe she used to look like this:<br /> <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/33749/molly_the_mantis.html" title="Molly the Mantis"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2488/33749_thumb.JPG?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=OqM28ZIY1xzoFrvj9xS7PuvX1BQ%3D" width="200" height="134" alt="Molly the Mantis Wanted one of these amazing alien like creatures for a long time. Done a lot of research on them and hope to do a lot more! She&#039;s (I think it&#039;s a she!) is an L3 instar nymph so she will do some growing. At the moment she is about an inch in size!!<br /> <br /> Her species is Creoboter Nebulosa and apparently she is a Chinese Flower Mantis. as I believe the species Creoboter Nebulosa encompasses a number of different species, such as the Indian Flower Mantis. Chinese flower mantis,Creobroter Nebulosa,Fall,Geotagged,United Kingdom,praying mantis" /></a></figure> Chinese flower mantis,Creobroter Nebulosa Click/tap to enlarge

All grown up

My little Molly is all grown up now. She had her final molt 2 days ago. It's hard to believe that she was all squashed in her exoskeleton! She now has wings too!
She's loving the mealworms at the moment - she's got such an amusing personality :) Hard to believe she used to look like this:

Molly the Mantis Wanted one of these amazing alien like creatures for a long time. Done a lot of research on them and hope to do a lot more! She's (I think it's a she!) is an L3 instar nymph so she will do some growing. At the moment she is about an inch in size!!<br /> <br /> Her species is Creoboter Nebulosa and apparently she is a Chinese Flower Mantis. as I believe the species Creoboter Nebulosa encompasses a number of different species, such as the Indian Flower Mantis. Chinese flower mantis,Creobroter Nebulosa,Fall,Geotagged,United Kingdom,praying mantis

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    Ferdy Christant
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    What a transformation, Stuart. Looks like Molly makes very clean cuts :) Posted 9 years ago
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      Stuart
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      I know, can't quite believe it! Her mouth parts are something else, they make light work of a bugs armor and it's like a well oiled machine in the way she can just keep cutting, chewing, and slicing her food up. Posted 9 years ago
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    *Deleted - sorry for the duplicate post*
     Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago

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The Chinese flower mantis

Creobroter or flower mantises is a genus of mantis concentrated in Western Asia. The name comes from the Greek "kreas" (combining form "kreo-", meaning "flesh"), and "broter" (eating); therefore, "flesh-eating", an apt name for a predatory insect. Both sexes have long wings and are capable fliers. Full-grown males are about 3 to 4 cm in length, females about 4 to 5 cm.

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