Praying Mantis

[Kray Gelder]

Stepped out on my front porch, and this very cool bug was hanging out on the siding ( believe it or not, the siding was scrubbed just a couple of months ago.)

An adult, about 3 inches long in the body. Thanks for looking.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Those are the coolest bugs!

 

[TerryC]

Nice! This guy was hanging out near Billy's grave....
TTC

 

[TerryC]

Anyone else with bugs?

 

[Jim in Idaho]

We get them around here too, Kray, but not often. I actually saw one clear up near 7,000' a few weeks ago. First one I've ever seen at that elevation. I was down by the Utah/Idaho border.
Jim

 

[Terry Soloman]

The ones we have here are lime green.

 

[tamrock]

I usually see a mantis around this time of the year. Also walking sticks come around in the early fall. Maybe all this housing development around here has put an end them around here? I am noticing some things are beginning to reducing numbers here. If I think about it, I didn't see a lot of grasshoppers around this year either. Maybe that's way I see so many less Kestrels. I believe bugs are a big part of their diet?

 

[A2coins]

Here I MI we don't see those much or Monarchs frogs Moths turtles All the fertilizer or progress from building. I haven't seen a cacoon since I was a kid

 

[TerryC]

The ones we have here are lime green.

Your water come from Jersey? They probably glow in the dark, too! TTC

 

[Jim in Idaho]

The ones we have here are lime green.

I see them in both colors here, Terry.
Jim

 

[fistfulladirt]

Love seeing the mantis, that’s a female. She’s already eaten her mate and won’t be around much longer...been seeing a lot of them lately.

 

[sea.thunter7]

"You must take this time as an opportunity to learn everything you can. To study, to practice, to absorb all the lessons of the mantis, for there are many. Patience, speed, adaptability, ruthlessness. The traits of a warrior king. Heed my words, and you will become as the mantis."

 

[Carolina Tom]

I have two of these spiders, genus Argiope, in my yard. This one lives right outside the patio.

 

[RTR]

A month ago we had a ton of young Mantis (only a inch long).Now we have these crazy looking spiders.

 

[Kray Gelder]

The ones we have here are lime green.

That's a great photo, Terry!

 

[Kray Gelder]

I have two of these spiders, genus Argiope, in my yard. This one lives right outside the patio.

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They're beneficial, eating lots of bugs, but they're so huge they creep me out. We have those around here too.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I usually see a mantis around this time of the year. Also walking sticks come around in the early fall. Maybe all this housing development around here has put an end them around here? I am noticing some things are beginning to reducing numbers here. If I think about it, I didn't see a lot of grasshoppers around this year either. Maybe that's way I see so many less Kestrels. I believe bugs are a big part of their diet?

The Kestrels are a species in trouble, as you say, probably from all of the development everywhere.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

I have two of these spiders, genus Argiope, in my yard. This one lives right outside the patio.

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I almost walked through the web of one of those, Tom, a few weeks ago. High elevation, too. I stopped and walked around, so as not to disturb her. Danged scary-looking...LOL
Jim

 

[Jim in Idaho]

We have lots of kestrels here. The young ones DO feed heavily on grasshoppers in late summer.
Jim

 

[digger27]

I caught this one while I was playing around with my macro setting on my Nikon.
Seemed like he/she just felt like posing for me that day.