Praying or Preying?
Explored August 4, 2010 #65
Wandering around the yard for a photo of the day, my husband yells out, "There's a praying mantis over by the rocks." I don't know if I was squealing from the excitement or the ickines.
He was perched on the edge of a bowl, I moved the bowl to a table and was able to move around him using my 50mm, he actually turned his head with me, watching every move I made. The background is actually sky.
The colloquial name is "praying mantis", because of the typical "prayer-like" stance, although the term is often misspelled as "preying mantis" since mantises are predatory.
This close up of his face (Archimantis latistyla) shows it's compound eye and labrum. The structure of the compound eye actually creates the illusion of a small pupil.
Praying or Preying?
Explored August 4, 2010 #65
Wandering around the yard for a photo of the day, my husband yells out, "There's a praying mantis over by the rocks." I don't know if I was squealing from the excitement or the ickines.
He was perched on the edge of a bowl, I moved the bowl to a table and was able to move around him using my 50mm, he actually turned his head with me, watching every move I made. The background is actually sky.
The colloquial name is "praying mantis", because of the typical "prayer-like" stance, although the term is often misspelled as "preying mantis" since mantises are predatory.
This close up of his face (Archimantis latistyla) shows it's compound eye and labrum. The structure of the compound eye actually creates the illusion of a small pupil.