Ghost Mantis Female Final Molt

Phyllocrania paradoxa - The best molting video so far! I actually had time to prepare for this one. The whole process took almost 3 hours (about 45 minuteds for the molt, the rest to inflate the wings). It wasn’t easy to compress it to only 8:37 but I think I pulled it off. Starts out showing the swollen wing buds to watch for on sub-adults. It’s a good indication a molt is about to happen. They swelled many hours before her molt. After she pulls out of the old skin you can see that she reache