Bisected Mantis Video

I've been catching a lot of mantises this year.  It must have been a good summer for them.  This is a male that I picked up that I put with a female I suspected of having not bred yet.  After surfing on her for 2 days straight but not mating she finally had enough and pull him forward.  She then bit off an arm and then through his torso.  It was very vexing because she was clearly full and didn't even bother to eat him.

There's some pretty amazing audio of my friend and I talking in the background but it had to removed.

Bug Symposium

a portion of my perserved mantis collection

Don't forget the Bug Symposium is this Saturday, October 7th at OutrSpaces starting at 7pm.  The symposium is a quixotic fusion of art, music, and science with the common them of bugs.  Arthropoda will be well represented.   I will have a portion of my own personal collection on display, a table about insect photogrammetry, and some insect related art.

New Piece

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This is actually more than a year old but for whatever reason I never photographed.  Which is funny considering how much I rag on other artists for lack of or poor work documentation.  Anyway, this is a praying mantis arm.  It's a chinese mantis arm if I remember correctly.  DoSpace again was where I had the final model printed. Tragically actual arm got destroyed by accident.

Don't forget that today is Make Lincoln.  Consider coming out.