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Mantis religiosa (if not mistaken) taken on a summer eve in Vreli (Agios Antwnios), Crete. Since I still can't afford a macro lens, setting was Nikon prime F/1.8+Kenko TC X1.4+Kenko extension tubes+SB 600 flash mounted on camera. Dedicated to "macropoulos" www.flickr.com/photos/markop/ who is passionate on macro.
The Power of Stillness
The Praying Mantis teaches how to still the outer mind and go within ourselves.
Through this, we can draw upon greater power --
physical, emotional, mental or spiritual.
That stillness can be simple contemplation or meditation or even dreaming.
Healers often have Praying Mantis totems -- for they use
their inner stillness to focus their healing power.
The greatest lesson this totem teaches is patience.
Learning to wait for the right moment before striking.
Mantis religiosa, santateresa en algunos países de América del Sur, es una especie de insecto mantodeo de la familia Mantidae.
Fue introducida en Norteamérica en 1899 en un barco con plantones y a pesar de ser una especie introducida, es el insecto oficial del estado norteamericano de Connecticut
Es un insecto de tamaño mediano de aproximadamente 4 a 6 c.m., con un tórax largo y unas antenas delgadas. Tiene dos grandes ojos compuestos y tres ojos sencillos entre ellos. La cabeza puede girar hasta 180º. Sus patas delanteras, que mantiene recogidas ante la cabeza, están provistas de espinas para sujetar a sus presas.
Son animales solitarios excepto en la época de reproducción, cuando macho y hembra se buscan para aparearse. Cuando hay más de un macho cerca de una hembra, éstos se pelean y sólo uno se reproduce. Las hembras son mayores que los machos. En raras ocasiones, durante y tras el apareamiento la hembra se come al macho.
Puede ser de color verde o pardo con distintos matices. El color del adulto lo determina el del medio en el que habita durante su última muda (por ejemplo, amarillo, si se trata de paja seca, o verde, si es hierba fresca).
Es el único animal conocido que cuenta con un único oído, y lo tiene localizado en el tórax.
Mantis religiosa
The praying mantis is named for its prominent front legs, which are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position of prayer. The larger group of these insects is more properly called the praying mantids. Mantis refers to the genus mantis, to which only some praying mantids belong.
By any name, these fascinating insects are formidable predators. They have triangular heads poised on a long "neck," or elongated thorax. Mantids can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan their surroundings with two large compound eyes and three other simple eyes located between them.
Typically green or brown and well camouflaged on the plants among which they live, mantis lie in ambush or patiently stalk their quarry. They use their front legs to snare their prey with reflexes so quick that they are difficult to see with the naked eye. Their legs are further equipped with spikes for snaring prey and pinning it in place.
This praying mantis is living on a pointsettia plant that is on a table right next to our front door. The girls and I have adopted him.
Two different mantis egg cases (ootheca) at the Greenport Conservation Area today. This one is that of Egg case of the Chinese mantis, Tenodera aridifolia. The Greenport Conservation Area is a CLC property. See more from this location in the Columbia Land Conservancy set.
"Close up image of a mantis' face (Archimantis latistyla) showing its compound eyes and labrum. The structure of the compound eye creates the illusion of a small pupil." wikipedia
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