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Mantis religiosa
Two praying mantis remains.
Urban garden
I'm pretty sure they weren't molting.
Spotted on Sep 30, 2011
Submitted on Oct 12, 2011
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If they weren't molting, they were mating. The female has a bad habit of eating her smaller mate during the copulation. So what you see there is the dead female and the remains of the male.