Posts Tagged: praying mantis
Find the Praying Mantis! (Hint, She's Big!)
Find the praying mantis. That's not too difficult, considering this Stagmomantis limbata is gravid...
Find the praying mantis! This is a female gravid Stagmomantis limbata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In this 2018 image, a praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, deposits her egg case in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Tale of a Quail and a Mantis
It would never happen in real life. A quail and a praying mantis together? Except when one is a...
Praying mantis meets quail. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
“Well, hello there!” (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
“Pardon me while I groom myself.” (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
“We are one.” (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Where's Walda?
You've probably read the children's book, "Where's Waldo?" Waldo wanders around the world, gets...
"Walda" snares a bee, probably a leafcutter bee, in a patch of milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bad day for a bee, good day for a hungry praying mantis named Walda. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Walda, the praying mantis, finishes her meal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The meal is over for Walda, the praying mantis, and it's time to groom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who Dunnit?
Interviewer: "Hey, Gulf Fritillary! What happened to you? Something take a chunk out of your...
A Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae, manages to fly despite a huge chunk missing from her wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Gulf Fritillary turns around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis, a Stagmomantis limbata: "You talking to me? You talking to me? It wasn't me, y'hear. It wasn't me." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oh, To Be a Praying Mantis...
Oh, to be a praying mantis, and hide among the flowers waiting for prey. On a warm sunny morning...
A female praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, peers at the photographer in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This praying mantis stops and grooms herself. Is it important to groom yourself before breakfast? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The mantis starts her climb to the top of the Mexican sunflower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hey, I'm here! The praying mantis surveys her surroundings. Note: this bee did not become breakfast. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)