Praying Mantis Eating Fly
Found this on I am bored. http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=43590. So pretty.
Fly Eating Praying Mantis
Archimantis latistyla
Something real quick. (via wikipedia)
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Archimantis latistyla, commonly known as the large brown mantis (also known as the stick mantis or Australian mantis) is a species of mantid native to Australia. The large brown mantis has a few subspecies, and one of them is the stick mantis ghost from Bundabergs Turtle Sands. The stick mantis ghosts are not as aggressive as the original species but have a defense display used to make the mantis appear larger by flinging its front legs into the air and putting its head down along with its antennae. Large brown mantids are light brown with short winged female and a long winged male. The subspecies from Bundaberg is a pale cream white with a yellow and black eye in between the arms (one and a half times the size of the original species). The large brown mantis female is called “short winged”—the pair of wings reach only half her abdomen and she is not able to fly—but the long winged male has wings that cover the entire abdomen. The wings have four sets of wings and wing covers. The top set are the covers and the bottom wings enable the mantis to fly.
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Monochamus
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Monochamus galloprovincialis
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M. sartor
M. sutor
Monochamus is a genus of longhorn beetles that are found throughout the world. They are often known as sawyer beetles, as their larvae bore into dead or dying trees, or bark beetles[2]. They are often found in pine or evergreen trees. Some species are know to transmit the nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, which is the cause of pine wilt disease[3].
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- ^ Monochamus (TSN 187564). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ thefreedictionary.com genus Monochamus (accessed July 7, 2007)
- ^ Kansas State Research and Extension – Pine Wilt (accessed July 7, 2007)
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Devil’s Flower Mantis
I had to share this. The Devil’s Flower Mantis (Idolomantis diabolica).
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Apparently there isn’t much information about them but they are beautiful.
Here are some pictures.
Devil's Flower Mantis
Defense Pose
Another Defense Pose
