Articles tagged with: nymph
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.
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.
A baby leafhopper peeks out from the cavernous bowl of a leaf. Summer awaits.
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.
