Articles tagged with: Praying 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.
Bug Dreams, my newest book, is now available. Bug Dreams, a 40 page hardcover book with dustjacket, takes you deep into a green microwilderness, a dreamless moment of light.
From the introduction by Kathe Koja:
”In the green world, all days are one Day, and evening is a dreamless moment. The philosophy of life there is quite simple, but expressed in a million ways, a billion: the twitch of compound eyes, the ballet stretch of a leg, the fierce distension of a mandible.”
For more information, see preview images and order a copy of Bug Dreams, follow the ant.
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.
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.
A praying mantis nymph disappears in a miniature fantasia of seed clusters and crystal ball water droplets.
A faint wind and the spring begins.
A young praying mantis peers out from a corner of its silent, prismatic forest, searching for prey hidden in the humid shade.
