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Old 19th December 2009, 10:48 AM
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Here's an interseting visitor to my neps. I have been wondering how and why I seem to keep finding big preying mantisii (?) inside my shade houses and how they manage to get in. Yesterday I got an answer to the 'why' part. I video taped this guy/gal sucking up the nectar from a couple pitcher peristomes and lids. They have a very efficient mouth and moved along one rib at a time all the way around the peristome before moving up to the lid glands! Unfortunately, the videos are something like 77 MB each and I don't have a you-tube account/experience...any hints are welcome.





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Old 19th December 2009, 01:26 PM
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Wow you've got scorpion in your neps and now mantids?Your surroundingg is forest?So good
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Old 19th December 2009, 02:56 PM
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with them around to pick up crawlers and flies your neps are assured to be healthy.
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Hmm, I didn't know that mantids drank necter.
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does it bite the pitchers or leaves ?
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Old 19th December 2009, 04:48 PM
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Marvin - there's lots of coconut plantation land all around me, mostly undisturbed except for the coco harvesting every few months. Plenty of bugs, snakes and animals!

Robert - I've always been happy to see them inside the shade houses and never chased them out. I did worry that they might not find enough to eat inside but figured that they must 'want' to get inside as no other bugs even half their size manage to do so.

Alcran - Me either! Today I also watched a cloud of mosquitoes sucking jucies from a bunch of individual female nep flowers!

cbkhoon - Watching it close up I realized that no, it doesn't eat the leaves at all. The mouth has its own apparatus that is like a little machine with fingers selecting what it wants and shoveling it into the mouth. He/she seemed to just move along one groove after the other and then moved on to the underside of the lid. I will have to open a you-tube account and post the video.
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