Articles tagged with: Praying mantis
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
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.
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.
