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Stagmomantis carolina
I believe these are the same female. In the picture with the car, I interrupted her while she was eating.
Garden with zinnias
Stagmomantis carolina are highly cannibalistic. It looks like the female is eating a male of the same species. 1st instar nymphs will cannibalize, but it gets worse at L2 and older.
Please update if you agree with the ID suggestion! This would be a wonderful addition to the Marvelous Mantids of the North East mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1573...
Beautiful shot! The females of this species of mantis are believed to be flightless and often have shorter wings, so it's not surprising to see. She looks like this one:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/228202
Spotted on Sep 7, 2012
Submitted on Sep 7, 2012
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