Mounted Mantises - quiet for a long while
I've been prepping more mantises for photogrammetry. It's surprisingly fussy and I have to keep them in case to keep them from getting dusty. Though to be honest the case came from doing makers faires. Even the most attentive parents cannot manage their kids 100%. One of those flies is actually mostly useless if you look at closely. It got kid mushed despite their parents best efforts. Not mad, just how kids are. So into a case the subjects go.
I won't be posting a lot of finished for awhile. Most of the stuff I will be doing will be for a large show come spring.
Mounted Mantis
Two more mantises died this week (in addition to the male that got bit in half from the previous post) , an adult female Chinese Mantis and an adult male Carolina Mantis. I tried to hang/mount the Chinese Mantis by just her wings but the wings proved to be far to fragile so more mantis parts for the parts jar. The Carolina got hung by his right arm. I'm worried again about it all being far to fragile but I'll have to wait till the weekend (when I can take the weights off) to find out. His base isn't completed yet. I'm making a basin that the rod and base will go in to fill with ferrofluid and mantis parts.
