Isn't she adorable? And isn't it always the case that, when meeting an extraordinary insect like this, one grabs a camera, takes a couple of shots, and then one's told that The Battery Has Run Out - and - since I was hardly on a deliberate Mantis shoot, the subject of my attentions had retreated to her dead-leafy bower before I could find another suitable piece of camera technology. Just after I took this, of course, she raised her fore-legs into a true praying position. She's also a preying, predator mantis, and takes care of all kinds of insects, so she's to be cherished. Did you know that Praying Mantises - attentive though they might be to everything, especially juicy spiders - have only one ear?
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