Praying Mantis: Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder
The praying mantis is named because of the way it holds its front two legs, looking like they are in a praying position.
Their front legs are used to snag insect prey. Although praying mantes are sold in some garden stores as a beneficial insect, it doesn’t discriminate between eating harmful versus beneficial insects.
It will eat a beneficial honey bee just as likely as it will eat a damaging caterpillar!
Click on image to enlarge "Creepy-Crawly"
The praying mantis is also known for its two large compound eyes, adding to its “alien-like” appearance. Less well known, however, are the three simple eyes found between the compound eyes on its triangle-shaped head. The two large eyes allow the mantis to have stereoscopic vision, one of only two insects in the world that have this. The praying mantis is the only insect able to turn its head 180 degrees. Some praying mantises have one ear, located on their abdomen. It doesn’t hear most sounds very well with this ear, but it is actually able to hear high-pitched bat echolocation “peeps.” This lets the praying mantis evade bats that want to eat them as a midnight snack.
Click on image to enlarge"You Funny Looking Too"
Praying mantises mate in the late summer/early fall, and yes, the rumors are true – the female will sometimes either eat her mate after mating or will even bite his head off in the middle of the act (and the body will finish the job without the head!).
Try bleaching the disturbing visual image you conjure from your memory next time you see a praying mantis!
If you see a female who at first glance appears to be holding her mate in her arms lovingly, check again. Most likely she is munching on his head! (Source https://durangoherald.com/articles/109837)
Click on image to enlarge "Come, my Pretty"
The first image is my entry for Shadow Photo Contest created by the lovely @melinda010100 and hosted this week by @shasta. The theme for this week is "Bug Shadows."
Learn more by clicking here: https://steemit.com/shadowphoto/@melinda010100/shadow-photo-contest-round-86-bug-shadows
Also entering for the talented @whatisnew's weekly insectpub challenge. Learn more here: https://steemit.com/butterflyday/@whatisnew/thursday-is-butterfly-day-and-insect-day-giveaway-week-30
A song came to mind about the female mantis. It's titled "Evil Woman" a by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). Click below to play it:
Try bleaching the disturbing visual image you conjure from your memory next time you see a praying mantis!
If you see a female who at first glance appears to be holding her mate in her arms lovingly, check again. Most likely she is munching on his head! (Source https://durangoherald.com/articles/109837)
Click on image to enlarge "Come, my Pretty"
The first image is my entry for Shadow Photo Contest created by the lovely @melinda010100 and hosted this week by @shasta. The theme for this week is "Bug Shadows."
Learn more by clicking here: https://steemit.com/shadowphoto/@melinda010100/shadow-photo-contest-round-86-bug-shadows
Also entering for the talented @whatisnew's weekly insectpub challenge. Learn more here: https://steemit.com/butterflyday/@whatisnew/thursday-is-butterfly-day-and-insect-day-giveaway-week-30
A song came to mind about the female mantis. It's titled "Evil Woman" a by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). Click below to play it:
Learn more by clicking here: https://steemit.com/shadowphoto/@melinda010100/shadow-photo-contest-round-86-bug-shadows
Also entering for the talented @whatisnew's weekly insectpub challenge. Learn more here: https://steemit.com/butterflyday/@whatisnew/thursday-is-butterfly-day-and-insect-day-giveaway-week-30
A song came to mind about the female mantis. It's titled "Evil Woman" a by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). Click below to play it:
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You are right, I do know better, and I already planned to edit to cite my source but am having a heck of a time trying to find it in my Google browsing history on my smartphone which is all I use for to create my Steemit content. Furthermore, neither of the two sources you cite were the one I used and there are many more with the same info @kharma.scribbles so its hard to locate the exact one I used. You saw yourself when you searched!
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Unbelievable. My first offense -- an honest oversight -- and you basically chop my head off. I am not perfect. Nobody is.
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Thanks for explaining. Seemed a bit overkill.
Hahaha, I love the mantids my friend and have posted some big ones in the past.
A study reflects that sexual cannibalism in mantids has to do with the eggs of the female, the males body material is passed into the female and thus she can lay more eggs. The male by virtue of his death provides nourishment for his offspring.
www.australiangeographic.com
This world would be childless if human males were to do this hahaha
Great shots and a lovely description here.
Blessings!
Isn't that just gross? Makes the female tarantula seem normal! Thanks for the information and good thing you gave the source!
Great photo. I just bought a macro lens so Im keen to find a cool critter to capture!
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Yay -- a new grownup toy! Fun times coming your way! If you're like me, spiders aren't good subjects. While I'm busy looking through the lens and focusing, I'm afraid it could be moving directly towards me and the camera!🕷
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life ledsonsjokes could be spun from this post. However since I enjoy having my head attached, I best just leave this alone lol.Lol! We can revisit this one at a future time and come up with all kinds of crude comments! Happy Friday, Paul! @old-guy-photos
Love the mantis, we get a few where I live, music superb choice @ninahaskin
Thanks! They certainly are intriguing, alien-looking likeable insects. Happy you enjoyed the song choice too @joanstewart
Great post and photos @ninahaskin! You captured an awesome shadow of the mantis! Last year I saw so many praying mantis and this year I saw not one. Possibly, I just haven't been looking in the right places or haven't been out very much..lol. 😉
Thank you Dee! Or it could be that your feathered friends snacked on all of them
You are very welcome Nina! I had that same thought this morning as I heard those darn bluejays making a commotion again. Then again we do have a lot of spiders lately but I think a mantis would have a good fighting shot in that match. 🤔
The more you know about them it becomes much more difficult to be fond of them! Great shadow photo! Thanks for entering!
Thank you! @Melinda010100 I've missed your #shadowcontest and find myself collecting "future" photos wherever I go 😀 Yes, the females certainly can be flat-out murderers and I hope I never witness seeing one kill a male in that manner firsthand because I like the strange-looking insects! The two in my photographs live on separate sides of my home, and I've seen a couple babies.
Glad to hear you are shadow hunting! I have never seen a praying mantis in all the years I have lived here, so it's fun to see yours!
Thank you, Melinda. Watch, now you'll end up seeing one! Do you have walking sticks?
I saw my first walking stick a few weeks ago. Did you know praying mantis eat hummingbirds? I don't think I like them very much.
Yes, I mentioned that disturbing information in one of my replies, to @hangin. I think Im learning toward liking walking sticks better now!
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I have always been somewhat fascinated by Praying Mantis for some reason and I am not sure why, that first shot is a cool entry for the contest good luck
Love that cartoon it gave me a chuckle
Happy the joke put a smile on your face too, Jay! Mantid's eyes and strange faces along with those weird t-rex looking arms are quite intriguing. Thanks for stopping by😀
Ohh yes they do have such a prehistoric look to them have a super Sunday