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Camara / Camera: Nikon D750
Objetivo/Lense: Tamron 70-300 mm f/4.0-5.6 VC
Place: Kaiping (China)
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Praying mantis
Mantis religiosa
Linnaeus, 1758
Æ/2,8, 1/320s, ISO 200 - stacked from 14 exposures; natural light
OLYMPUS OM-D E-M1 MARK II + Olympus M.Zuiko 60 mm F/2,8 Macro + Berlebach Mini Stativ + Manfrotto 410 Junior + Novoflex Castel XQ II
Praying mantis
Mantis religiosa
Linnaeus, 1758
natural light, single exposure
Nikon D7100 + Sigma 105 mm Macro + Manfrotto MT190XPRO3 + Manfrotto 410 Junior + Novoflex Castel XQ II
Little mantis in the yard this morning, in a large yucca (I think) thing that gets big flowering stalks the hummers and other birds love. Also gets some nice spiders, but I think it's a bit early yet. Mantis could be nicely positioned to pick one off maybe. This one is quite pale, and so is the plant it's on. It has the same or similar yellow spot toward the hind end (barely seen so I marked it on the image), same or similar to the one I saw a month or two ago, and had really never noticed before. Check it large - full frame here,
Valle de Roncal, Navarra
Phylum ARTHROPODA/Subphylum HEXAPODA/Clase Insecta/Orden Dictyoptera/Suborden Mantodea/Familia Mantidae/Mantinae Burmeister, 1838/Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus, 1758) BV
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Mantis, Mentadak
" This head is crunchy, wanna some?"
This little guy is about 2cm long and is having dinner among the leaves of mango tree. Mantis or praying mantis feed mainly on other insects, and are found mostly in tropical or subtropical countries. Most mantises spend their time sitting still among foliage, or on the bark of the trees, waiting for insects to stray within reach of a lightning-quick snatch of their spined forelegs. Then they eat them alive, neatly and delicately..... always head first. They never take plant food.
This image is included in 2 galleries:- 1) "Sleek and Beautiful" curated by V. Vasant Kumar and 2) "Macros 95(1994)" by DAN VARTANIAN.
Praying mantis male in resting on a globe-thistle in bloom. Diois, France.
Mante religieuse femelle à l'affut sur un oursin bleu en fleur. Diois, France.
Technique: Sometimes the subject I'm shooting gets so use to me being close that it just goes about its business as if I'm not there. All I had to do is set the camera to under expose the natural light in the background, and I shaded the subject so that the flash was the only significant light source on the mantis (to freeze motion).
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 37mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX (flash head "A" set as the key and "B" as the fill, with the key on a Kaiser flash shoes). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Mantis religiosa, paprastasis maldininkas
Lithuania, TauragÄ, 2021.10.01
Canon EOS R
Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis.
The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelling species are found actively pursuing their prey. They normally live for about a year. In cooler climates, the adults lay eggs in autumn, then die. The eggs are protected by their hard capsules and hatch in the spring. Females sometimes practice sexual cannibalism, eating their mates after copulation.
Mantises were considered to have supernatural powers by early civilizations, including Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and Assyria. A cultural trope popular in cartoons imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale. Mantises are among the insects most commonly kept as pets.
Los Angeles. California.
Praying mantis
Mantis religiosa
Linnaeus, 1758
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Æ/2,8, 1/25s, ISO 200 - stacked from 22 exposures; natural light
OLYMPUS OM-D E-M1 MARK II + Olympus M.Zuiko 60 mm F/2,8 Macro + Hoya Fusion ONE CIR-PL + Berlebach Mini Stativ + Manfrotto 410 Junior + Novoflex Castel XQ II
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Evgeny Shcherbakov say's ----
The resolution is too small to tell for sure, but I don't think it's an ant. More like a parasitoid, mistaking the mantis nymph for a full-grown female. Such parasitoids sometimes attach themselves to a mantis female and then wait for it to lay an ootheca, to quickly lay their eggs inside of the latter.
A close look at an adult female mantis (Stagmomantis limbata, a native species here in SoCal) that I found this morning. Adults of this species can be green or brown, but that doesn't adequately describe how much they can vary. "Brown" can tend toward yellow, orange, or even pink, and "green" can be grayish, deep shamrock, or mint-pastel, like this one.
Juvenile mantis (I think Chaeteessa sp.) at night in a Costa Rican forest. Well-camouflaged creatures are among my favorite macrophoto subjects; what seems drab from a distance almost always has beautiful complexity up close. For instance, look at the thin yellow edging at the base of the spines on the raptorial forelegs.