Mantid
90 creative works found
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Pseudempusa Mantis males engaged in some form of fisticuffs (basically showing off).
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A full-body shot of the flashiest mantis around, the Devil’s Flower Mantis (Idolomantis diabolica – it bears one of the coolest sounding Latin names too), in a threatening position. A visual cocktail, it’s beautiful and spooky, elegant and creepy.
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Hierodula (Rhobodera?), a praying mantis from Irian Jaya.
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A little abstract-ish macro.
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A pair of Pnigomantis medioconstricta nymphs.
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Deroplatys lobata, a Dead-Leaf Mantis, in threatening stance
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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.
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Deroplatys lobata aka Dead-Leaf Mantis.
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Pseudempusa pinnapavonis is inconspicuous beige-yellowish in colour; only when threatened this praying mantis really shines.
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African mantids (Polyspilota aeruginosa).
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The choice of a common factor criterion – like pointedness of eyes in this case – was totally arbitrary.
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...is a feast. A flower mantis Creobroter gemmatus devouring a cricket.
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A portrait of Deroplatys lobata – full frontal. The photo was taken late in the evening, after the lights in her terrarium went out – hence the dark eyes.
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I was lucky enough to get to light this one indoors.
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Portrait of a Thistle Mantis (Blepharopsis mendica).
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Idolomantis diabolica aka Devil’s Flower Mantis, showing off.
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A shed exoskeleton of Zoolea mantis frozen in a classical “zombie pose”.
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I sometimes wonder what the world would like to a insect. Can you imagine, meandering through a beautiful garden, only to come across a predator such as the preying mantis? .......... GENERAL INFORMATION: Did you know? Praying mantids’ excellent eyesight allows some to see movement up to 60 feet (18 meters) away. The praying mantis is named for its prominent front legs, which are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position of prayer. The larger group of these insects is more properly called the praying mantids. Mantis refers to the genus mantis, to which only some praying mantids belong. By any name, these fascinating insects are formidable predators. They have triangular heads poised on a long “neck,” or elongated thorax. Mantids can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan their surroundings with two large compound eyes and three other simple eyes located between them. Typically green or brown and well camouflaged on the plants among which they live, mantis lie in ambush or patiently stalk their quarry. They use their front legs to snare their prey with reflexes so quick that they are difficult to see with the naked eye. Their legs are further equipped with spikes for snaring prey and pinning it in place. Moths, crickets, grasshoppers, flies, and other insects are usually the unfortunate recipients of unwanted mantid attention. However, the insects will also eat others of their own kind. The most famous example of this is the notorious mating behavior of the adult female, who sometimes eats her mate just after—or even during—mating. Yet this behavior seems not to deter males from reproduction. Females regularly lay hundreds of eggs in a small case, and nymphs hatch looking much like tiny versions of their parents.
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