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Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Spotted this fella on my dining room window one September afternoon in Oklahoma City. Thought I would share some of the amazing pics with the site.
AHayes
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Preying Mantis
Dear AHayes,
Thanks for sending your truly amazingly surreal image of a Preying Mantis to our website. Selecting an unusual angle for a photograph often makes an ordinary subject appear extraordinary. Though we in no way consider Preying Mantids to be ordinary, the odd perspective does give your photo added interest and it makes the Mantis appear positively menacing.
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Comments 1
Until 5 years ago I had never encountered a preying mantis in the “wild”. In 2004 I was installing new electrical service to the farm house and noticed the grass was moving. There was what I could only describe as a small herd of mantis headed north to the unmowed back four acres. I bottled up one to show the wife that had to be six inches long. Now each year since I start looking for them in mid to late August and each year I see them headed north. Their numbers vary, but they are there like clockwork each year.
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