I'mABug.com Blog » Mantis http://blog.imabug.com imabug.com updates Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:34:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Praying Mantis Eating Fly http://blog.imabug.com/2010/07/praying-mantis-eating-fly/ http://blog.imabug.com/2010/07/praying-mantis-eating-fly/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:43:58 +0000 Eric http://blog.imabug.com/?p=61 Found this on I am bored. http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=43590. So pretty.

Fly Eating Praying Mantis

]]> http://blog.imabug.com/2010/07/praying-mantis-eating-fly/feed/ 0 Devil’s Flower Mantis http://blog.imabug.com/2008/10/devils-flower-mantis/ http://blog.imabug.com/2008/10/devils-flower-mantis/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:53:46 +0000 Eric http://blog.imabug.com/?p=26 I had to share this.  The Devil’s Flower Mantis (Idolomantis diabolica).

Devil’s Flower Mantis
Idolomantis diabolica

Idolomantis diabolica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Empusidae
Genus: Idolomantis
Species: I. diabolica
Binomial name
Idolomantis diabolica
Beier, 1956

via [wikipedia]

Apparently there isn’t much information about them but they are beautiful.

Here are some pictures.

Devil's Flower Mantis

Devil's Flower Mantis

Defense Pose

Defense Pose

Another Defense Pose

Another Defense Pose

]]> http://blog.imabug.com/2008/10/devils-flower-mantis/feed/ 0 In case you had any doubt … http://blog.imabug.com/2008/10/in-case-you-had-any-doubt/ http://blog.imabug.com/2008/10/in-case-you-had-any-doubt/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:01:06 +0000 Eric http://blog.imabug.com/?p=22 Of how bad ass mantes are … Watch one eat a mouse.

]]> http://blog.imabug.com/2008/10/in-case-you-had-any-doubt/feed/ 0