Visitor - Mantis

[shawnintland]

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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~Shawn