Showing posts with label preying mantis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preying mantis. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Ever Been Bit By A Praying Mantis?

I have. A few years back I went to pick up a praying mantis (I had never seen one before)- a very pregnant looking female, and it bit me! It was a bite to remember, I shook my finger and it's powerful jaws just held on to the spot it had sliced through my skin. It hurt like hell and bled. So when the huge praying mantis pictured here landed on my foot (and was about as long as my foot) I just about pee'd myself in fear- opposite my usual Buddha demeanour around bugs I flung this guy off my foot as fast as I could. He landed in this dirty tupperware next to my compost bucket, where he happily discovered plenty prey to mantis on.
Munch Munch.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Praying Mantis Eating Fly On A Peach

These pictures need no description other then I found this praying mantis on my porch, sitting on half an old peach right as he caught this unsuspecting fly. This amazed me, thus here are a few of my favorite pics (from the 40 gazillion I actually took).