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Mantis religiosa
Spotting #800! Smaller green mantis with purple femora on two pair of hind legs. Pink border on thorax, reddish border on wings, and red antennae. Distinctive spot on inside of raptorial (front) legs (see second image). This spot can be solid black or white with a black ring.
Short Hills Provincial Park, Ontario. Meadow.
My first European Mantis spotting! Thank you Dan Ducette for finding this fellow!
Spotted on Aug 25, 2013
Submitted on Jan 17, 2014
4 Comments
Congratulations on your 800 spotting, ForestDragon.
I am not even close to that!! So many spottings so little time to post them..... : (
Thanks! I moved the second image to the first spot. :-)
Congratulations!!!!
Congrats on 800! I love the second photo with the flower :)