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Dicromantispa sayi
Less than 1 inch long insect that has the hindquarters of a wasp, head and grasping legs of a praying mantis and wings of a dobsonfly.
Rural back yard, attracted to moth lights.
The color in the eyes is actually refraction from the camera flash. No matter what angle you take the photo from, you get that cool pattern, even if you are above the mantisfly.
Spotted on Aug 16, 2014
Submitted on Aug 18, 2014
29 Comments (1–25)
Oh my goodness, its eyes look like kaleidoscopic rainbows! Beautiful.
Congrats Lisa. The power of hypnotism.
Excellent photograph! And what a beautiful mantis!
Awesome so well deserved
Thanks PN! I am SO excited! I believe this is my first Ranger nominated Spot of the Week!
Thank you to all who took the time to comment. This one is special to me. I have been wanting to find one for years. I found one years ago but did not get any good photos.
Congrats Lisa!!cool shot!!
Congratulations Lisa on your SOTW
Congrats Lisa, our Ranger team has chosen your awesome macro as its Spotting of the Week! These amazing hypnotic eyes belong to a mantisfly – which despite its name and appearance is neither a mantis or a fly but a member of the Neuroptera order and more closely related to lacewings.
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Cool!! Reminds me of Skull kid from The Legend of Zelda.
Awesome insect and pictures Lisa!
wow!!!!! Beautiful....
Lisa beautiful series,those eyes are awesome,it look like aliens invaded Tenesse :-)
Congrats and thanks for sharing
Such a beautiful photo :)
I love the 4th photo! Great find Lisa!
Wow! Thanks everyone! I knew I had something special as soon as I snapped this one. I have been waiting for years trying to find another one of these. I did not get any decent pics the last time I found one. I stalked this one for hours last night. :-)
Great find, congrats Lisa
fascinating :)
Fantastic!! Great pictures of a good looking creature, LisaPowers.
don't look it in the eyes, they can sense fear ;) haha
Psychadelic look! Congrats!
Dude... mantisfly!
Wow!!! Starry eyed wonder!! Great find Lisa..
Beautiful eyes!
The color in the eyes is actually refraction from the camera flash. No matter what angle you take the photo from, you get that cool pattern, even if you are above the mantisfly.
wow!!