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This is the one that hopped a ride on the back of the pickup truck. With the late evening light without flash all I could do was this silhouette.
L'enigmàtica mantis religiosa ...insecte que en realitat dón molt misteris.
The mysterious insect praying mantis ... which actually gives weeklist very mysteries.
Mantis religiosa, with the common name praying mantis, and outside Europe the European mantis, is an insect in the family Mantidae. It is one of the most well-known and widespread species of the order Mantodea, the Mantis.
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Insects are so much fun to build.
Also, I think it's almost on a 1:1 scale.
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Capture Date : 02 Jun 2014
Night macro at Singapore Botanic Gardens @The Rainforest Trail
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Found this beast of the macro world today in some late day sunlight after I got home from work. So I pulled out the long lens and the 100mm to get some captures. This one was taken with the 100mm lens closer in to get the praying mantis' upper body and head.
Praying Mantis I found on a bridge at the foot of Mount Meru where my sister is living at the moment. It's a beautiful place with a nice rainforest to explore
My wife called to me as she was about to grille our dinner to bring my camera 'for capturing things close' as she put it.
This was little one was checking her out from the railing of our deck. Captured at ISO 3200 in the low light.
After a slow search through the neighbor`s Raspberry patch I finally found one of the Mantis` several feet away from where i photographed him a few weeks back. Now his length i`d say is about 2 1/4 " and this guy was stalking the various flies that land on and off the leaves of the patch in the sunlight. My best luck it seems for spotting these guys is earlier in the morning, the few times i `ve looked for him during the day and evenings turned up nothing, though as we all know timing is everything.
6.3 million shots of him 3 feet back in and on the leaves of the patch poking the camera through and around twigs and leaves finally produced a shot where i was happy. Getting a good dof and focal point was quite the challenge! Wah.
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"Keep a knockin', but you can't come in.
Keep a knockin', but you can't come in.
Keep a knockin', but you can't come in,
Come back tomorrow night and try it again"
- - Little Richard
This Praying Mantis looked like it was trying to either hitch a ride or to break in. You can tell it knows it's up to no good by its surreptitious, backward glance over the shoulder. :))
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