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Name my mantis

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RudyGarmisch
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The dude (actually, I think its a female, should get its adult form next molt and will know for sure then) has gone for too long without a name. Help?
Oct 6 2010 7:35PM
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ButteredToast.
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The fuck kind of a mantis is that?
Oct 8 2010 6:43PM
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[~_~]
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Whatever you name him, put a mantis-sized basketball hoop in his cage and teach that fucker to JUMP
Oct 9 2010 9:21PM
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RudyGarmisch
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DUDE!! Shes molting right now, shes totally crazy looking, her wings havent even totally inflated yet. Pics on the way, but in the meanwhile, LAST CALL ON A GOOD NAME!
Oct 21 2010 12:33AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Oct 21 2010 12:40AM
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Arabian.
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Scyther!
Oct 21 2010 12:45AM
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c4t_l0ver
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steve french
Oct 21 2010 1:02AM
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hoodratz47
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Mjöllnir

the hammer of thor!!

btw.. are you going to give stickers for a winner?
Oct 21 2010 2:53AM
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Bungholio
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call him horhay
Oct 21 2010 3:11AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Just have my cell phone camera now, higher res coming.
Oct 21 2010 3:50AM
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hoodratz47
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such a cool bug.
Oct 21 2010 3:59AM
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Arabian.
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You have some haggard fingers. Get in a fight?
Oct 21 2010 10:01AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Wearing powdered latex gloves for 5 hour previous, stops fiberglass splinters and the dust gives your fingers a healthy green with white speckled tint until you wash up.
Oct 21 2010 10:10AM
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EastCoast...
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optimus prime.
Oct 21 2010 10:17AM
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ButteredToast.
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I have never seen a mantis like that, ever. What kind?
Oct 21 2010 9:40PM
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JacheOReally
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Cheese
Oct 21 2010 9:42PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Okay, the decision has been made. Thank you all for your entries, but I think I have to go with Steve. Steve is just chillin right now, gonna feed him tomorrow and take some pics.

And its a Ghost Mantis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllocrania
Oct 24 2010 9:34PM
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*TURBONERD*
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call him
MIKE JONES
Oct 24 2010 9:35PM
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Peter.
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please refer to the post above you
Oct 24 2010 9:37PM
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84891jnf92048
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how did you even know it was a mantis? i would have just thought it was a leaf and stepped on it to hear it crunch, like a leaf would, then be extremely disappointed after i killed a mantis
Oct 24 2010 9:38PM
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meth_time
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Finally I get to post in this.


Name it chris.
Oct 24 2010 9:40PM
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84891jnf92048
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OH MY GOD YOU ARE BACK THANK MODS (pun on thank god)
Oct 24 2010 9:43PM
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i.am.green.man.
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monty ftw
Oct 24 2010 9:43PM
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WidespreadMedia.
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paul, definetally paul
Oct 24 2010 9:52PM
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meth_time
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I'm glad people are so happy.
Oct 24 2010 10:00PM
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