South African Photographs: Grass Mantis (Pyrgomantis rhodesica)

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Grass Mantis (Pyrgomantis rhodesica)

Family Mantidae

This species of mantis, as the name implies, is found on grass stems where it waits motionless for prey.

It is large, about 7cm in length.

3 comments:

Gaelyn said...: Great cone head.; November 2, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Firefly the Travel Guy said...: I found about 15 baby manti in Megan's room on the curtains the other day. Caught them all and released them in the garden.; November 4, 2013 at 6:27 AM
Sue C said...: Absolutely fascinating!; November 4, 2013 at 10:40 AM

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