Articles tagged with: nymph
The red-eye to the dark side beckons,
a hotshot young assassin stalks a world gone feral,
no pillow talk from this demon.
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Assassin bug | Zelus luridus
A reign that rejiggered reality in the antique world,
an engagingly eccentric ruler had youth and beauty
but no disciples, the last
invertebrate pataphysician.
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Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
New praying mantids are on the way.
Below, an ant is caught by a newly-hatched mantis,
a wild-eyed day-old stalker.
A spring refresher course in the shadings between
incompatible beasts on either side of spindly limbs.
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Praying mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae
A miniature apocalypse waits, big enough
to command, too small to oppress,
a mantis nymph on a vast and fecund mountaintop
glances to the left and then blinks.
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Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
Watchful sentinel, wispy antennae caressing the wind
like laser beams, a moment’s truth in its reach,
slips away lost as a dream forgotten.
A katydid nymph in the Michigan wilds.
A young praying mantis, hours old,
impersonates a gargoyle near the roof
of the microwilderness.
A small demon, waiting for instructions.
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.
The tiniest lineman anchored to the earth,
a Greater Angle-wing Katydid itching for a scrimmage,
opponents fear-starred in his eyes.
She’s the kind of girl who leads, mysterious and complicated,
her graceful movements, her penetrating gaze,
performing her lazy high dance,
a trespassing nymph reflected
in my glassy lake.
A longhorn grasshopper nymph steals
the dusky moon from the dawn.
