Articles tagged with: mantis
After the rain, an aloof mantis nymph
conducts the little restless midges.
Just found out my Wild Light blog has been included in the list
“50 Amazing Nature Photography Bloggers”,
a nice resource for some fine wildlife photography.
Here’s a young bandit hours after birth,
a praying mantis nymph caught up in some abandoned
spider webbing searching for tiny prey.
Less than a breath, almost nothing at all,
a young praying mantis is a ghostly insinuation
in the green world.
Minutes old and ready to hit the ground stalking, a tiny, skeeter-sized praying mantis surveys the leafy streets of a lush new world.
A patient praying mantis waits silently, a tiny backyard ghost, a new-born, skeeter-size bundle of hunger.
Still mantis central here, I hope some will survive the perils of my backyard microwilderness.
A mantis from last year crosses a dew-covered bridge below.
My backyard microwilderness has been overrun by tiny praying mantids, hatching this week from their egg cases.
Some are stillborn, some will survive, some will fall to something stronger. All are astonishing.
Below is a mantis from last spring.
Spring is busting loose in our backyard, mantis ootheca’s hatching hundreds of tiny hunters yesterday and today.
Action in the air too, like these competitive diving songbirds.
The mantises will be hatching soon, hoping to start a life as a top insect predator, if they manage to survive to adults.
Here a mantis nymph navigates through a landscape of plant stems resembling a tumbling cityscape.
This praying mantis nymph casts a small shadow now, and waits for smaller prey, biding careful winds carrying tiny echoes.
All angles, at the ready.
