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found undercover at my Early Childhood Centre after a stormy day: thunder, lightning & heavy rain. The children were very interested😀
It is on the outside of our kitchen window. One of the legs is folded up against its body. Taken by Edgar.
I had a nice walk with my macro lens. It was a good day for insects. I'm always amazed when I watch a praying mantis turn its head to stare at me.
Reduced the aperture to increase the depth of field to get nice details of the entire beast of an insect :)
found undercover at my Early Childhood Centre after a stormy day: thunder, lightning & heavy rain. The children were very interested😀
Hyperbole? Not a bit of it. For other insects, this is indeed the face of death. Beyond that, in the 1957 B-Movie, the terror of these wonderful horrors being much larger was explored.
Top Comment Box shows the poster from that entertaining movie.
Not sure how this praying mantis lost the distal end (tibia, tarsus) of its front leg, but I imagine this mantis narrowly escaped a predator. Life goes on...
Here I composed the little beast in the frame with the focus on the eyes at the shallow depth of field.