As it started to rain, I thought to myself, “if he’s sticking around, then so am I.” As the rain drops started piling up on both of us, I managed to capture this pretty scene before the real deluge / began ! (Windsor, CT.)
This shot was taken in my backyard, just as this praying mantis was passing in front of a yellow mum !
Sphodromantis gastrica – From head to tail it measured approx 40mm or 1,5” Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
As it started to rain, I thought to myself, “if he’s sticking around, then so am I. As the rain drops started piling up on both of us, I managed to capture this pretty scene before the real deluge began !
Camera: Nikon D50, Lens: Tamron 90 mm 1:2.8. Featured in Nikon DSLR Users Group: March, 2009. Featured in #1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE: March, 2009. Featured in Natural Color and Light: March, 2009. Featured in Photography 101: April, 2009.
Mantis on Day Lily. Olympus E510. Vivitar Series 1 90mm.
Neither the mantis nor myself were smart enough to come out of the rain, so we just hung out together until the brief sunshower passed us by !
The Piano (Man)tis brings down the house with this raucous encore number !
The stress is starting to clearly show on the face of Apollo 13 astronaut , Jim Lovell, as he desperately tries to maneuver the spacecraft back into earth orbit !
Praying Mantis. This insect gets it’s name from the way in which it’s two front legs are bent and held together, suggesting the position of a prayer. Any profits made from the purchase of this piece, will be donated to the Wildlife-appeal / /
I love this little Praying Mantis; he seemed to be very curious. / / __ / All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. © 2007 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action!
I really learned a lot doing this piece. I’ve come to the decision that it’s finished now, but I see a lot more I could have done… Reference: http://faestock.deviantart.com / Emmeline4-113970582
Preying Mantis. The are over 2000 species of Praying Mantis around the world. They are predatory insects and are closely related to cockroaches. Any profits made from the purchase of this piece, will be donated to the Wildlife-appeal / /
I snapped this closeup as this mantis hopped onto a cluster of colorful backyard flowers!
Mantodea or mantises is an order of insects which contains approximately 2,000 species in 9 families worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. Most of the species are in the family Mantidae. Historically, the term “mantid” was used to refer to any member of the order because for most of the past century, only one family was recognized within the order; technically, however, the term only refers to this one family, meaning the species in the other eight recently-established families are not mantids, by definition (i.e., they are empusids, or hymenopodids, etc.), and the term “mantises” should be used when referring to the entire order. A colloquial name for the order is “praying mantises”, because of the typical “prayer-like” stance. The term is often mis-spelled as “preying mantis”, and this an eggcorn since mantises are notoriously predatory. The word mantis is Greek for “prophet” or “fortune teller”. In Europe, the name “praying mantis” refers to only a single species, Mantis religiosa. The closest relatives of mantises are the orders Isoptera (termites) and Blattodea (cockroaches), and these three groups together are sometimes ranked as an order rather than a superorder. / About 20 species are native to the United States, including the common Carolina mantis, and only one in Canada. Two species (the Chinese mantis and the European Mantis) were deliberately introduced to serve as pest control for agriculture, and have spread widely in both countries. While it is legal to keep native mantises as pets or to sell egg cases for gardening, non-native species are illegal to possess and release in the United States, under the Non Native Invasive Species Act of 1992.(wiki) / / / /
It’s an Orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus), but I’ve used an Anthurium flower as a prop here – couldn’t find any white/light pink orchids at the local florists.
Order MANTODEA- family – Sibyllidae – The “Sibylla pretiosa” mantids A performance that is suppose to “scare”, any predator, was to me a very “elegant” scare!
Praying mantis
The “all you can eat” Labor Day Weekend Buffet continues! After polishing off the Daddy Long Legs spider, the same mantis went back for seconds. Here, the mantis has just caught a Flower Fly and is polishing off some wings. Hey-Save some for dessert!!!
Praying mantis taken with Kodak Easyshare,
Pseudempusa pinnapavonis is inconspicuous beige-yellowish in colour; only when threatened this praying mantis really shines.
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