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Looks like an actual cross between "praying mantis" and a wasp.
Spotted at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, Chippewa Trail
I found this guy in my yard while sitting around a bonfire eating dinner!
This species is a paper wasp mimic, so it looks like a strange combination of a ...
At first, i thought this was a juvenile praying mantis. Turns out it was a ...
A little larger than a lacewing, a superb mimic of a paper wasp, as shown.
Looks like a cross between a Praying Mantis and a wasp. Antennae move ...
A wasp with fore-arms like a Mantis. Single, orange colored wing. Yellow ...
wasp mantisfly, (Neuroptera: Mantispidae). Found by beating sheet on Alder near ...
So this is what happens when a praying mantis mates with a wasp. Adults feed ...
Looks like it's half praying mantis and half wasp but it is its own species.
This unusual insect mimics in appearance a wasp, which probably helps deter ...
a rather unusual insect. Although they have grasping mantid-like raptorial ...
An insect that strongly resembles the paper wasp Polistes instabilis. but it ...
Tiny little mantis nymph. This one measures about 3/8" long! Located near a ...
