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European Mantis

Mantis religiosa

Description:

The Praying Mantis is so called because of the praying like posture it adopts with its folded fore-limbs. Generally the females are green and larger than the males, with wider abdomens. The males tend to be tan coloured, smaller and thinner.

Habitat:

This one was sitting in some dead leaves in our garden.

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2 Comments

Great series! I've removed this from The Hoppers mission that includes only Treehoppers, Planthoppers and Leafhoppers. :)

AnnvanWijgerden
AnnvanWijgerden 11 years ago

Great shots!

Janice Parr
Spotted by
Janice Parr

Aydın, Turkey

Spotted on Oct 12, 2012
Submitted on Oct 19, 2012

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