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Just changed into the green outfit - that brown one was getting too small.
They come in brown or green. The female has short wings and a rather thicker ...
http://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/Breeding_room.htm
This medium sized green female mantis is very alert. She is ready to lay ...
This mantis has short wings. It is female. Here is the male: ...
A green full winged mantis with beady red eyes. This is a male. These occur ...
This mantis was making a meal of one of those 'plague beetles'. It was ...
This species was sharing a nocturnal hunting ground beneath an apartment garden ...
This smallish mantis was exploring a young casuarina tree. It looks not fully ...
Bright apple green mantis with leaf like bottom half. Not sure what exact type.
Brown praying mantis about 6cm.
About 50mm long. Eyes red (at night time?) Wing covers in an attractive green. ...
Praying Mantis approx. 5cm long, delicately cleaning its antenna with it's ...
Brownish Beige coloured. Around 4 cm in length (around 1.5 inches)
A pale pinkish brown mantid with dark eyes - about 30 mm long.
This brown female ( short wings) false garden mantid was about 50mm long. As ...
False Garden Mantids have two colour forms - they can be green or light brown ...
Female. The wings only cover half the abdomen. Spots inside the arms help ...
‘She’ killed the blowfly by biting into its neck. She then proceeded to eat it ...
Common across Australia. Mostly green but brown is not unusual. The dark spot ...
75mm. Bright green with yellow lines along the face and into the eyes. This is ...
How did all that fit in there !!
Penultimate instar? moults in our garden. ...
The False Garden Mantis is one of the most common species of mantis in ...
There is a dark spot on inner side of each of its front arms. They are slow ...
The mantis was hoping for a quick snack, but didn't see an even bigger and ...
A blue-green mantis about 30mm long. Might have had short wings - could not ...
