tn-kamakiri.com : TOP <@Insect watching@< @The emergence of Hymenopus coronatus ( Photos )
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Photo.1 shows the scene that she is going to begin emergence at any moment.However, actually emergence did not readily begin with this posture.I thought that it was because I am in a side with a camera. So, I decided to leave my room for a while. Emergence began as expected when I came back to my room in a few minutes.
Photo.2 is the photograph taken at the beginning after the emergence start. I wanted to photograph a state of emergence a little more finely, but a body already has considerably gone out according to the photograph. Folded wings like the cabbage which it cut in half is very lovely .
Note the stomach which bulged like a balloon! Compared with Photo.1, why has the stmach swollen like this? I guess that the stmach is slightly left, so she swells her stmach out and is taking care not to fall from shell.Seemingly she seems to do nothing, but I thik that it is hard time for mantis.
After that this praying mantis kicked and dropped her shell and began to walk.
Feather has been extended little by little in this posture.Take notice of centre of left forewing in the Photo.12. Left forewing has bent as compared with right forewing. I do not understand why it becomes such, but this influence remained after emergence. So as not to bring something bad result, I left her as she was.
(Photo.16) The wings will fold up, if it gets dry. The portion of wings has failed in this emergence. So she cannot close her wings firmly.
This is considered to have happened for swing condition by having not stretched net firmly.
As Photo.17, Photo.18 shows, the left forewing is bending rather than the time of Photo.16. But she can fly about 1m even this condition.
