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Praying Mantis

Description:

Sex: Female. Its recently laid its eggs on one of the plants. Length: 40 mm

Habitat:

Inside my bathroom.

Notes:

I have 2 carnivorous plants, which attract a lot of insects (mostly bees). The praying mantis laid its eggs on the Monkey Cups leaves ( Nepenthes). and Recently I watched the Mantis catch a Bee trying to enter the mouth of the other plant, a Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia)

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1 Comment

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 10 years ago

Poor bees. They're food for one thing, or the other.

WarwickDBooth
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WarwickDBooth

Western Cape, South Africa

Spotted on Jun 3, 2013
Submitted on Jun 3, 2013

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