On the Hunt

A Praying Mantis on the hunt among the palm trees.

When I was a kid, I saw a horror movie called The Deadly Mantis about a monster sized Praying Mantis that was hell bent on eating humans. I couldn't sleep for weeks afterwards. LOL

[Poppo Livy]

Ha Ha Just Googled it and the story is "When an Arctic glacier explodes, the hidden praying mantis becomes active and starts killing army men around. It then moves to areas like New York and Washington, thereby spreading panic."

You can see the trailer for it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gcn0_V3zv8

[Esther Rosenberg]

Neat shot!

[Elizabeth]

Cool photo. I have a sculpture of a praying mantis in my yard, courtesy of the former owner. I have never before seen real one.

[Babs]

He's watching you, watch out.

I looked at the link but had to watch it from behind my chair, ha ha, scary stuff.

I watched the movie The Blob around the same time as your movie and it scared me to death too,

[Poppo Livy]

@redy4et Very common around here Elizabeth. This one would have been about 12cm long

[Denise Wood]

I love these guys!!! Hope you're not having sleepless nights now :)

[KoalaGardens🐨]

super find, they are so great

[KV]

Nice POV.

[Merrelyn]

Great find.

[PhylM-S]

Awesome shot!

[Poppo Livy]

@onewing Ha ha Yes, I saw The Blob also. And then there is the song of course
Beware of The Blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door

And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of The Blob

[*lynn]

great close capture

[Chris Cook]

Great closeup