Posts Tagged: praying mantids
Got to Kill to Live
Some folks dislike photos of praying mantids snagging, killing and eating their prey. Well,...
A camouflaged praying mantis dining on a bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Can you find the ootheca or egg case of the praying mantis in this birdhouse photo? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Influx of Caterpillars Linked to Hawks
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the...
Three's company! Three juvenile Cooper's hawks, as identified by Andrew Engilis, Jr. curator of the UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology,cooling off in an urban birdbath in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Gulf Fritillary gets ready to lay an egg. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf Fritillary caterpillars defoliating the passionflower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Shutterbug or Shudder Bug?
We usually see praying mantids, aka praying mantises, camouflaged in foliage and lying in wait to...
Camouflaged praying mantis having lunch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)