mantis

The tiniest mantis I've ever seen and it is right at my home backyard.

The tiniest mantis I've ever seen and it is right at my home backyard.

The tiniest mantis I've ever seen and it is right at my home backyard. It is called Asian Ant Mantis (Odontomantis planiceps). It is documented to be between 1.4cm - 2cm but this one I photographed looks like 1cm or less. 🤔 Perhaps next time I will try to shoot with a ruler 🙂 Attempted to...

This is a small insect, about 3 cm long

This is another species of mantis (a small one - about 3 cm long), not the very well known European Mantis

Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina: Mantidae) 4.7-6.0 cm (1.9-2.5 in) long. Tomorrow my wife and I fly to Argentina for a few weeks. I will not be on line during that time. I wish everyone great birding and photographing. Lol, the forecast for the first day we arrive is rain. Cheers! Stanley

Don't flip your monitor or stand on your head Donny got the shot of me on the underside of the branch.

wonder if they are battlescars ? Look at the little black dots on its eyes. Photo taken at our house and enhanced (HDR) and sharpened.

this Praying Mantis must love the camera. taken at 1/2000th, F/3.5, 14.3mm at ISO 220

the hunter was successful in catching the hunted. the actual "final" moment was captured in slow motion video and it was still a blur. nature is awesome. taken at 1/250th, F/4, 24.1mm at ISO 100

.......This one was pitched on top of the Bluebird house.......they showed up soon after I moved on. Don't know the "Rest of the Story".

This guy just finished eating a bee in a boxwood bush in front of our house. He turned his head to look at the camera as I got into position!

Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina: Mantidae) Adult females like this one grow to 4.7-6.0 cm (1.85- 2.36 in) long. They have much wider abdomens than males. Their colors vary dependent on their environment. They are noted for cannibalism which can happen at anytime the opportunity presents...

I don't know the species name, but this little creature, less than an inch long, is an adult praying mantis. Not only tiny, but beautifully camouflaged. They are common around here, but I seldom spot them. Everything about this little one is designed to confuse they eye, including its own eye.

A praying mantis I brought into the house by mistake on some eucalyptus leaves.

A portrait of a very angry little mantis. :'D I found him in the garden, but didn't like the background where he was, so I picked him up to move him. He was utterly outraged! :'D :eek!: He grabbed me with his little spines, and began gnawing fiercely at my finger, but his jaws were too small to...

A little praying mantis I found touring my pot plants one morning. That pointing foreleg seems to be directing me somewhere else...anywhere else... :'D

small mouth with a big grasshopper / mantis ..

An interesting pattern on it's back! I've no idea of the species. A

I would appreciate anyone who can tell me which species of mantis this is. He was in residence for a week in this Russelia equisetiformis or Firecracker plant.

I'm glad these guys aren't as big as dogs!

This fellow was in the same bush as the spider.