#mantodea — Public Fediverse posts
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A Golden-armed Mantis (Hierodula venosa) spotted at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore on 4 May 2025. A lucky find, as I was idly walking past this tree in the car park when I saw it.
This large mantis was the size of a human hand.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278315953 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #SIngapore #Insects #Mantis #Mantodea
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A Golden-armed Mantis (Hierodula venosa) spotted at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore on 4 May 2025. A lucky find, as I was idly walking past this tree in the car park when I saw it.
This large mantis was the size of a human hand.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278315953 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #SIngapore #Insects #Mantis #Mantodea
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A Golden-armed Mantis (Hierodula venosa) spotted at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore on 4 May 2025. A lucky find, as I was idly walking past this tree in the car park when I saw it.
This large mantis was the size of a human hand.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278315953 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #SIngapore #Insects #Mantis #Mantodea
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A Golden-armed Mantis (Hierodula venosa) spotted at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore on 4 May 2025. A lucky find, as I was idly walking past this tree in the car park when I saw it.
This large mantis was the size of a human hand.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278315953 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #SIngapore #Insects #Mantis #Mantodea
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Богомолье
https://telegra.ph/Bogomole-05-18
#богомолы #Plistospilota #Pseudocreobotra #Deroplatys #Шипастый_цветочный_богомол #Pseudocreobotra_wahlbergii #богомол #Mantodea #снова_голоден #Liturgusa_fossetti #термобия #колибри #Самка #яйца #Самцы #орхидейный_богомол #Hymenopus_coronatus #Rhombodera_Megaera #чёртов_цветок #Idolomantis_diabolica #Deroplatys_desiccata #Theopompa_servillei #Mantis #Mantises #Spiked_Flower #Mantis #Mantodea #Hungry_Again #Thermobia #Hummingbirds #Female #Male #Eggs
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Богомолье
https://telegra.ph/Bogomole-05-18
#богомолы #Plistospilota #Pseudocreobotra #Deroplatys #Шипастый_цветочный_богомол #Pseudocreobotra_wahlbergii #богомол #Mantodea #снова_голоден #Liturgusa_fossetti #термобия #колибри #Самка #яйца #Самцы #орхидейный_богомол #Hymenopus_coronatus #Rhombodera_Megaera #чёртов_цветок #Idolomantis_diabolica #Deroplatys_desiccata #Theopompa_servillei #Mantis #Mantises #Spiked_Flower #Mantis #Mantodea #Hungry_Again #Thermobia #Hummingbirds #Female #Male #Eggs
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Богомолье
https://telegra.ph/Bogomole-05-18
#богомолы #Plistospilota #Pseudocreobotra #Deroplatys #Шипастый_цветочный_богомол #Pseudocreobotra_wahlbergii #богомол #Mantodea #снова_голоден #Liturgusa_fossetti #термобия #колибри #Самка #яйца #Самцы #орхидейный_богомол #Hymenopus_coronatus #Rhombodera_Megaera #чёртов_цветок #Idolomantis_diabolica #Deroplatys_desiccata #Theopompa_servillei #Mantis #Mantises #Spiked_Flower #Mantis #Mantodea #Hungry_Again #Thermobia #Hummingbirds #Female #Male #Eggs
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Богомолье
https://telegra.ph/Bogomole-05-18
#богомолы #Plistospilota #Pseudocreobotra #Deroplatys #Шипастый_цветочный_богомол #Pseudocreobotra_wahlbergii #богомол #Mantodea #снова_голоден #Liturgusa_fossetti #термобия #колибри #Самка #яйца #Самцы #орхидейный_богомол #Hymenopus_coronatus #Rhombodera_Megaera #чёртов_цветок #Idolomantis_diabolica #Deroplatys_desiccata #Theopompa_servillei #Mantis #Mantises #Spiked_Flower #Mantis #Mantodea #Hungry_Again #Thermobia #Hummingbirds #Female #Male #Eggs
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Predators abound. Here, the cutest one: a mantis nymph (juvenile), Ameles spallanzania, as beautiful and gracious as it hops about the drying twigs of grass as it is deadly to any little creature within its sights.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309793118 -
👏 Well done!
I've been rescuing bugs left and right as a way of illustrating how tame and harmless they are to us (most of them, and not in Australia 😆 ).
The last one: this adult praying mantis (about 10 cm) found crawling on a friend's shirt, to the dismay and screaming of "kill it! kill it!" of his wife next to him. I held it on my hand until she realised it was not going to harm me, or her, or anyone, and then let it hop onto a nearby twig. "But aren't you afraid it will bite you? – Ma'am, I'm not a fly. This is the best natural cleaner of house bugs you can get, even available for order from an internet shop."
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306727909
#iNaturalist #Mantodea #mantis #entomology -
A tiny Flower Mantis, genus Astyliasula, spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. Had to zoom in with the camera to figure what it was; it looked like a dark spot to my eyes.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672558 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Mantis #Mantodea
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Giant African Mantis (Sphodromantis viridis) Ootheca on Mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)
#Mantis #Mantodea #Ootheca #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insect #Insects #InsectPhotography #PrayingMantis #Animal #Animals #Plant #Plants #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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European Mantis (Mantis religiosa) Ootheca
#Mantis #Mantodea #Ootheca #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insect #Insects #InsectPhotography #PrayingMantis #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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An Asian Ant Mantis (Odontomantis planiceps) nymph spotted at Springleaf Park Connector, Singapore on 17 Nov 2024. When young, the mantis is black and looks like an ant. This one is starting to turn green, the colour of the adult.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251991728 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Mantis #Mantodea
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Unfortunately the really well-preserved mantis encased in amber are stashed away in private collections where nobody can study them. I can't even track where this image is from except that the specimen was sold in an auction.
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A 110-million year old mantis [1], a ~20/5-million year old mantis [2], and a mantis from our garden [3].
[1] "An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans", Hörnig et al. 2017 https://peerj.com/articles/3605/
[2] "A new species of mantis (Insecta: Mantodea: Amelidae) from the Miocene Amber-Lagerstätte in Mexico", Terríquez-Beltrán et al. 2022 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2022.2134782
[3] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179582544 -
Insects galore, Summer solstice is approaching folks!
Leaf beetle, Lachnaia sexpunctata https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164682214
Reptalus sp., a true bug that looks like a miniature cicada https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164655831
Short-horned grasshopper, Calliptamus sp. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164565957
Prayer mantis, Mantis religiosa, pretending to be a dry grass twig https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164565910
See the rest of the cache here from the island of #Crete: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=37.333431184011395&nelng=26.873926214089455&place_id=any&swlat=33.61274114175391&swlng=20.897363714089455&user_id=albertcardona&verifiable=any
#iNaturalist #Acrididae #Coleoptera #Hemiptera #Mantodea #Mantis #entomology #insects
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A neat brown praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) is taking a stroll on the cacti.
#InsectSaturday #InsektenSamstag #mantodea #insects #entomology
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Brand new mantises marching away from their ootheca.
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Mantis are awesome hunters: fish, birds, snakes, rodents, lizards.
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@mgerique The resilience of insects to injury is remarkable. Of course, there's quite the bias in that we only get to document non-fatal injuries. For example this mantis that lost one of its hind limbs. Yet from its behaviour I wouldn't have been able to tell, at least not immediately.
Ameles decolor, nymph with a missing left hindlimb. From Hvar island, Croatia https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131089844
