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January 2, 2021
03:33 PM AEDT
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December 11, 2020
12:54 PM AEST
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November 29, 2020
03:13 PM AEDT
Description
This little mantis afforded me a perfect opportunity to examine it in detail and take ventral images...it was reclining backward in an almost horizontal position, the head continually moving and scanning for prey. (It was not exhibiting a defensive posture).
5 cm length
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November 15, 2020
09:45 PM IST
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December 14, 2019
10:25 PM PST
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December 10, 2019
01:38 PM EST
Description
Saperda cretata Beetle 17 July 2016
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April 6, 2018
01:56 PM EDT
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May 7, 2018
09:54 PM EDT
Description
Mantid cannibalism - female/female.
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November 2, 2018
02:56 PM EDT
Description
Battle of the non-natives. I heard some movement in the vegetation and found this Chinese Mantis trying to capture a Common Wall Lizard. The lizard was able to escape.
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November 2, 2018
02:56 PM EDT
Description
Battle of the non-natives. I heard some movement in the vegetation and found this Chinese Mantis trying to capture a Common Wall Lizard. The lizard was able to escape.
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November 21, 2018
11:38 AM -05
Description
Atrapada en el baño de una finca
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October 23, 2018
06:52 PM UTC
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October 28, 2018
11:38 AM HST
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October 17, 2018
08:27 PM -03
Description
Adult female/Hembra adulta.
Capilla del Monte, Córdoba, Argentina.
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October 14, 2018
08:49 PM AWST
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October 10, 2018
10:16 AM CDT
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September 30, 2018
12:41 PM PDT
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September 9, 2018
05:09 PM CDT
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July 13, 2018
09:08 PM -05
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July 13, 2018
07:06 PM MST
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July 13, 2018
02:28 PM HST
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August 1, 2016
04:50 PM EDT
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August 4, 2016
06:07 PM EDT
Description
Captured with a GoPro, found next to shore on a tree branch
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August 23, 2016
05:09 PM EDT
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August 23, 2016
05:35 PM EDT
Description
The vertical green vase-like structure
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August 23, 2016
05:36 PM EDT
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June 28, 2017
10:17 PM EDT
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August 13, 2017
05:26 PM EDT
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September 4, 2017
03:19 PM EDT
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September 4, 2017
05:24 PM EDT
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September 4, 2017
05:24 PM EDT
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April 22, 2018
10:11 PM EDT
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June 10, 2018
03:12 PM EDT
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June 10, 2018
03:35 PM EDT
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June 30, 2018
11:34 AM EDT
Description
This woodpecker was hopping around a ponderosa pine next to the Centennial Trail. Unfortunately I only had a small point-and-shoot camera with me so I could not get a nice photo since the woodpecker was a bit a ways away.
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June 4, 2018
07:54 AM EDT
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May 2, 2018
09:29 PM -05
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July 17, 2016
07:29 PM EDT
Description
Being eaten by a garter snake!
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February 26, 2018
04:44 PM HST
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January 17, 2018
03:11 PM UTC
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November 24, 2017
04:48 PM CET
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November 23, 2017
11:53 AM EST
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November 22, 2017
08:33 PM CET
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November 19, 2017
06:10 PM MSK
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November 19, 2017
04:52 PM CET
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November 19, 2017
09:43 PM IST
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November 17, 2017
11:15 PM MSK
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November 11, 2017
10:02 PM EET
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November 6, 2017
01:31 AM UTC
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November 6, 2017
01:30 AM UTC
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November 1, 2017
11:17 PM HKT
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October 29, 2017
03:30 PM MSK
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October 14, 2017
10:27 AM CEST
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October 4, 2017
11:13 AM +08
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July 25, 2017
02:30 AM CDT
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September 29, 2017
10:53 AM CDT
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September 21, 2017
11:36 AM AEST
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September 20, 2017
07:21 PM PDT
Description
Caught via otter trawling w/ The Marine Science Institute. 910 mm Male. Salinity 27-30 ppt.
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September 8, 2017
03:31 PM PDT
Description
Female with a couple of headless males.
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September 1, 2017
07:34 PM SAST
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August 26, 2017
10:17 PM UTC
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August 3, 2017
10:45 PM EDT
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July 15, 2017
07:59 PM IST
Description
Hestiasula brunneriana Saussure, 1871
Insecta/Mantodea/Hymenopodidae/Acromantinae/Acromantini/Genus: Hestiasula Saussure, 1871
Durgapur/Barddhaman/West Bengal/ India/02/07/17
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June 14, 2017
11:08 AM HKT
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May 26, 2017
02:03 PM EDT
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March 15, 2017
08:46 PM AEDT
Description
In ~10cm water along the sandy lagoon shore at low tide. First time I have seen one in this location. Fish was ~10cm long
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March 15, 2017
02:06 PM GMT
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February 18, 2017
02:48 PM PST
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February 15, 2017
12:09 PM CAT
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February 12, 2017
03:27 PM CET
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February 9, 2017
02:43 PM HST
Description
observations made during mangrove tour toward Isla Damas
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January 31, 2017
11:17 AM PST
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January 30, 2017
09:09 PM PST
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January 23, 2017
05:40 PM EST
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December 21, 2016
12:50 PM AEDT
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December 13, 2016
07:53 PM UTC
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October 14, 2016
01:37 AM EDT
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November 2, 2016
07:09 PM CET
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November 8, 2016
10:18 AM CET
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November 10, 2016
11:08 AM CET
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November 11, 2016
03:35 PM CET
Description
(subadult male)
19th December 2006.
North of Graskop, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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November 5, 2016
07:36 PM PDT
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November 5, 2016
11:25 AM MST
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November 2, 2016
04:27 PM +08
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October 26, 2016
06:41 AM PDT
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October 22, 2016
10:21 AM EDT
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October 22, 2016
01:02 PM BST
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October 22, 2016
08:02 PM HKT
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October 22, 2016
02:33 PM CEST
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October 21, 2016
02:37 PM HST
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September 7, 2016
08:59 PM CDT
Description
Check this out. Last year we saw a hummer get caught and eaten by a large mantis. The mantis was sitting on one of the feeders. I never heard of that happening before. We’ve been feeding hummers and have had dense populations of hummers at our feeders for 25 years now, and we had never seen this before last year. We have seen several instances of large female black-and-yellow garden spiders catching and eating hummers, but lots of mantises are around and so far as we've seen, they have never caught a hummer until last year.
Today a mantis caught a hummer and is eating it right now. The mantis with its prey is sitting on the persimmon bush/tree that is right by the feeders.
It looks like it could be the same mantis, but I googled mantis longevity and apparently a year is the maximum lifespan, so this has got to be a new mantis. It is possible, maybe even likely that this is the offspring of the huge female mantis that caught the bird last year, as she was the only big mantis in the area we ever saw. Maybe mantis catch hummers all the time, but we just don’t see them do it, and I think it is a pretty rare behavior. This one couldn’t have learned the behavior from a mother she never saw. Is there an inheritable bird-eating trait in that particular lineage? I guess it's a simpler hypothesis that it's a trait for quicker growth or larger than average size, and that just allows them to include hummers on the menu by late summer.
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September 1, 2016
05:40 PM UTC
Place
Private
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April 21, 2016
09:02 AM PDT
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April 17, 2016
08:21 AM CST
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June 10, 2014
06:50 PM CEST
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March 21, 2016
04:56 PM NZDT
Description
I was really impressive when two mantis hunted fly at the exactly same time and they shared the food without fighting.
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April 10, 2015
12:13 PM +08
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February 6, 2016
10:59 PM UTC
Description
Head end is in upper left
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November 28, 2015
04:19 PM -02
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November 26, 2014
10:56 AM EST