Praying Mantis in tent?

[Smallgrow]

Totally

[Gingerbeard]

Isn't his face some movie character?

[Smallgrow]

Um I don’t she tangoing with that guy, I think she preparing lunch

[Gingerbeard]

I always thought this kind of dancing looked like a man trying to kill a woman who was trying desperately to get away. The dip was the death scene.
Meh. It's dancing. I'd rather read.

[Bowhunterwoody]

I think females kill males after mating. Bite off their heads, and the males kinda know it. Trying to get a little without dying. That's why it looks like they're doing the tango. Females are way bigger.

[Gingerbeard]

Fuck my face. Here's an image of two praying mantises tangoing. Apparently, it's a thing. There are many more.

[9fingerleafs]

Very good question. I got no idea if it's a male or female. I've seen the pregnant females and they're much more fat around the belly

[Gingerbeard]

Maybe it is a rare trichome mutation of some type. Have you checked to make sure those are aphids? Seems like a skinny mantis. Seems that would be a corpulent sonofabitch of a mantis if those were aphids.

[Gingerbeard]

Is there a male mantis? You know it takes two mantises to tango, yeah?

[9fingerleafs]

The mantis does not look pregnant to me, but maybe. On the outdoor plants this happens maybe once a year but it's the first time I bring one indoors and I'm just waiting to see how long it survives. Once the infested plants are gone it's going to have no food so I may just release it to the outdoor flowering garden

[9fingerleafs]

The most curious thing is that I have another 4 plants right next to those two and those have no aphids. Once I get those two outside to flower I'll bring more from propagation. I'm just waiting a bit cause flowering is full right now

[9fingerleafs]

I don't do any kind of insecticide or spinozad. If I were to keep this plant for a longer period I would spray 99% ethanol with the lights off. But this is only on a couple of plants and next week they're going outside for flowering. Once outside the aphids disappear in a few days.

[9fingerleafs]

Yeah 😅 got pretty bad on a couple of plants

[Gingerbeard]

It's looking right at me.

[Gingerbeard]

No, no! 'tis only a flesh wound!