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"Hey, Manti-Mama--how close will it focus in super-macro? Can you see me now?" :D
Yes, yes I can...but this wasn't quite what I had in mind.
I saw him reaching, but I didn't think he was going to jump right onto the lens. I thought wrong.
I captured this bug and made it pose for me in my garden.
It actually seemed attached to me. It came to me several times.
Kinda cute behavior.............
Unless it was looking for a weakness. :-)
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
Male Chinese mantis. I saw this guy so often that I think he started to recognise me. I knew where he maintained his territory, so I knew where to look, and the yellowish bits on his thorax and raptorial legs allowed me to ID him. I named him Benjamin. No reason...he just sort of looked like a Benjamin.
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
I found this late-stage Chinese mantis nymph parked in a bunch of leaves, just barely visible. I tried to sneak up and get a good shot of her face, but she was having none of it. Maybe she was just embarrassed at having been detected; mantises are all about the camouflage!
Sub-adult Chinese mantis: (Tenodera sinensis) on Dutchman's pipe: (Aristolochia sp.)
Size: ~4.0 inches (10 cm)
August 18, 2013
Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
In the spring I brought home three mantis ootheca (egg masses) to place in my yard. I missed seeing them hatch, and never saw a mantis in the yard until this one on August 18 who showed up on the Dutchman's pipe that grows on my fence. And he or she stuck around as we'd see it every few days.
There are images of this individual as an adult on this Photostream beginning with: www.flickr.com/photos/krazykats/9669187504/
Sub-adult Chinese mantis: (Tenodera sinensis) on Dutchman's pipe: (Aristolochia sp.)
Size: ~4.0 inches (10 cm)
August 18, 2013
Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
In the spring I brought home three mantis ootheca (egg masses) to place in my yard. I missed seeing them hatch, and never saw a mantis in the yard until this one on August 18 who showed up on the Dutchman's pipe that grows on my fence. And he or she stuck around as we'd see it every few days.
There are images of this individual as an adult on this Photostream beginning with: www.flickr.com/photos/krazykats/9669187504/
I can never decide whether I like the brown or the green form Chinese mantises better, but that's all right--at Butterfly Lady's house, I don't have to decide because she has lots of both! :)
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis) on iron weed (Vernonia sp.)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
"I get it now! You want me to get out of the cup and climb up here....is that right? Okay, I'll do it, but I still don't understand why. You giant bipeds never make any sense at all."
Time to hatch! They seem to have a tendency to crawl up from the egg case, which in this case is a dead end. Their main objective is to get away from each other as they tend to be cannibalistic once they start hunting and eating.
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
I collected a few praying mantis egg cases while doing the spring cleanup around the yard and placed them in my greenhouse. They all hatched out over a couple of weeks in early summer.
During the day, Chinese mantises have tan-coloured eyes. This one's cup was in the bottom of the cooler, so he thought it was dusk and made his eyes go brown. Well, I have always had a soft spot for dark eyes. ;)
Bear Mountain State Park, Rockland and Orange Co., NY
Bear Mountain Zoo, Native Plant Garden
Donation Box Garden
Tenodera sinensis, Chinese Praying Mantis
praying mantis: (Tenodera sinensis)
Size: ~ 6 inches (15 cm)
August 26, 2010
Holbrook (Greene County), Pennsylvania
I found quite a few praying mantis egg cases during spring cleanup in the yard. I've put them all into my greenhouse in hopes that they'll help with biological pest control among my seedlings.
"What do you mean you won't be back to pick me up in time for dinner? I'm free now....to find my own food? Oh, I think not; if you're not coming back to get me, then you'd best be making a delivery, lady, 'cause I know where you live, and in a few hours, I'll be hungry!"
Not the most co-operative critter and I was doing well to get this poor shot as he hopped about the undergrowth, but he's the first I've seen this year, so he gets his Flickr fame! :)
"We played this before, didn't we, Manti-Mama? This is where you hold the camera close to me and I jump up on it, then you put it down and get another camera, and I jump on that one. Right? Okay, I'm ready to play...are you?"
Chinese praying mantis (Tenodera sinensis) hanging out among the flowers, waiting for an unsuspecting pollinator to come along.