Praying mantis

Picture of a green praying mantis or Mantis religiosa
Green praying mantis or Mantis religiosa

Picture of a green praying mantis eating a grasshopper
Green praying mantis
eating its grasshopper prey

Tan praying mantis waits in ambush in snow buckwheat
Tan praying mantis
waits to ambush from snow buckwheat

Tan praying mantis eating a mormon cricket ambushed from snow buckwheat
Tan praying mantis
eating its coulee cricket prey

Picture of a tan praying mantis catching large locust
Praying mantis
subduing a large Carolina grasshopper

Praying mantis egg case, November
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Praying mantis eating its prey,
Carolina grasshopper