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African Flower Mantis

Chlidonoptera sp.

Habitat:

On flowering plant lining the roadway

Notes:

Male

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2 Comments

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 9 years ago

Absolutely stunning! I do want to mention that this should be removed from the Pollinating Insect mission as Mantids are predatory and do not feed on flowers.

A perfect mission for this beauty is the Marvelous Mantids of the World mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1573...

Caleb Steindel
Caleb Steindel 9 years ago

epic captures dotun!

dotun55
Spotted by
dotun55

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Spotted on May 11, 2014
Submitted on May 26, 2014

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