Praying Mantis

[Brotherwolf]

I have never seen one of these before yesterday, except pictures or on t.v A lady I work with was watering the flowers at work when she caught this guy and put him in jar to take home to her daughter. She let me take it outside for a quick photoshoot, I wish I would have had more time to work with it, but I was afraid it would get away. So I snapped a few shots, sorry for a couple blurry ones.

 

[YH88]

Nice...

 

[_droptine_]

They are pretty cool bugs. For a couple of summers a few years ago, my parents had them all over the front wall of their house. It was pretty cool to see them when I went to visit. They never were in the area when I was a kid. Well, one night my mother looked out one of the windows in her bedroom and there was a huge tarantula on the outside of the screen that appeared to be stalking the mantises. There never were any of those around before either. I never got to see one of the spiders because for some reason, the mantises aren't there in the summer. Maybe they all got eaten? Still very cool bugs though.