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A gray whale diving down in Reykjavik bay, Iceland going for new pray after he took several deep breaths on the surface
Ein Grauwal taucht wieder in die Tiefe auf der Suche nach neuer Beute nachdem er mehrere tiefe Atemzüge an der Oberfläche nahm
Reykjavik Bucht, Island
The Mistery Coat Death from Obscure is available at the June 2018 SWANK Event. The Shrine Backdrop from Joplino Poses.
I think these little animals are so cool. This one escaped the "cutting room floor" as I was filling my green recycling bin with fallen leaves and cuttings. I spotted it just in time, making its way to the top edge of the bin, so I helped it back onto the lantana I was trimming. Sunlight going down, btw.
Mantises are an order of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae. Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks.
I am called Praying Mantis and am ready to say my prayer !
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A Praying Mantis in my garden this morning. It appears to be in it's praying position with it's "grabbing arms" folded. It was quite happy to just sit there and let me take some pictures.
Image is a stack of 42 shots. Stacked using Affinity Photo.
This is a heavy crop to frame the head. Upscaled using Gigapixel.
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species. So far, I've managed photos of six, this common green, a brown, a gold, and four that I can't come near classifying, plus one albino.
This guy was eyeing me as I was trying for the best shot. Those two black dots would move as I did. The eyes are widely spaced and laterally situated, affording a wide binocular field of vision and precise stereoscopic vision at close range. The dark spot on each eye that moves as it rotates its head is a pseudopupil. This occurs because the ommatidia that are viewed "head-on" absorb the incident light, while those to the side reflect it. But whatever the science, it's a little creepy when every praying mantis I've seen has seen and followed me, not because he was afraid, but because he was sizing me up as a potential meal ... or lifetime of meals.
The grand reward for working in the garden for me are these unexpected though wished for photo opportunities. I trimmed the plant next to this one the day before, so I was washing it down with the hose and out popped this mantis, landed on the salvia. It's full size, far as I can tell, probably 3 inches long. The coloring I've not really seen, the creamy white, and then there's that brown spot on one of the legs. There's also a light stripe across the face through the eye. Beats me. It was patient but plenty aware of me I think as I worked to get clean views and my favorite head turn. Light was nice too, through some monsoon-like clouds, and then sometimes the light would reflect back at the mantis from my home's bay window close by..
After very brief research, my guess is "European Mantis" just because the photo included that stripe across the face, and it has been introduced in the U.S. Just guessing!
Pray for Paris, pray for the world, pray for HUMANITY...
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