Posts Tagged: praying mantis
Walda: a Master of Disguise, Stealth and Ambush
Where's Waldo? If you've ever looked at a “Where's Waldo” pictorial book and...
A praying mantis is camouflaged amid the green stems, seed pods and leaves of a native milkweed as she awaits prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Well, no prey in sight, so I guess I'll just wait. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
While I wait, I may as well groom myself. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
I see you! You don't look like prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Quail of a Time
Talk about a quail of a time.... When the ootheca of a praying mantis,...
Praying mantis nymphs, Stagmomantis limbata, scatter on a metallic quail sculpture near where they hatched the afternoon of April 9 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Near nightfall, only a few nymphs remained on the metallic quail sculpture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Day a Clothespin Sprang to Life
Saturday, April 9 was the day a clothespin sprang to life. Some 200 praying mantis nymphs...
This is what the ootheca looked like in mid-March. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Saturday, April 9 was "Hatch Day." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Some of the praying mantis nymphs climbed to the top of a metallic quail sculpture on the clothesline, getting a bird's eye view. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Well, howdy there, sibling! What big eyes you have! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ooh, an Ooth! And on a Clothespin, at That!
No doubt you've seen a praying mantis egg case, or ootheca, on a tree, shrub, fence or...
An eggcase or ootheca warming on a clothespin in Vacaville, Calif. This is from a Stagmomantis limbata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image of a gravid Stagmomantis limbata, taken last summer in a Vacaville pollinator garden, may have been the mama. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The predator and the prey. A female mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, eyes a honey bee in a pollinator garden in Vacaville last summer. She missed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hey There, Pumpkin! Prey Tell, Is That a Praying Mantis?
Hey there, pumpkin! Prey tell, is that a praying mantis stalking a bee? Well, if your name is...
A praying mantis "shopping for bees" on a sunflower, became the subject of one of Allan Jones' carved pumpkins. (Photo by Allan Jones)
The mantis-and-bee image that Allan Jones captured became a fanciful pumpkin. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Images of a luna moth, Actias luna, found a home on one of Allan Jones' pumpkins. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Allan Jones depicted the colorful Western tiger swallowtails, Papilio rutulus, on this pumpkin. (Photo by Allan Jones)