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Most recent PHOTOS matching your search for 'praying mantis'...
  1. Praying Mantis out to check the mail (Photo ID: 99535)
    This big Praying Mantis was looking in from outside on one of the large front windows at the Columbia Post Office. It must have needed to check on... (click photo title to read more)

  2. Danger lurks in the garden (Photo ID: 95990)
    Veronica writes, "A garden can be a dangerous place. Well, it is if you're a small insect. Here we see the fate of a bee after he met a praying ma... (click photo title to read more)

  3. Newly hatched Praying Mantis (Photo ID: 91728)
    Sandy writes, "This is a newly hatched Praying Mantis - also from my Brother Fred's farm. We hope it is 'Praying' Grace and Mercy over all of the ... (click photo title to read more)

  4. Praying Mantis visitor (Photo ID: 89573)
    A recent visitor on the side of the house reminded me of a favorite story by Pen from a lazy August afternoon last year, ... (click photo title to read more)

  5. Mantis praying at the ACPL (Photo ID: 88949)
    This Praying Mantis stopped by the Library and with all the construction for the Genealogy Department may not have seen the food on the other side... (click photo title to read more)

  6. Bugs and boys (Photo ID: 85168)
    Very few things spark the curiosity of an eight-year-old boy like that of an enormous praying mantis. Roughly five inches long, the gentle leaf-li... (click photo title to read more)

  7. Teresa Harmon asks - Can you spot the praying mantis? (Photo ID: 80626)
    It's a master of concealment and camouflage. But it didn't escape the eye of Teresa Harmon. Photo Thursday, September 6, 2018. (c) Teresa Harmon... (click photo title to read more)

  8. Praying Mantis: Caught near hummingbird feeder, is relocated (Photo ID: 74560)
    Caught this guy trying to hitch a ride and enjoying some nectar on my hummingbird feeder last night. After moving him to our deck, I snapped this ... (click photo title to read more)

  9. Insects of Kentucky: Praying Mantis or Mantid (Photo ID: 37347)
    Sandlick Creek Area of District 3, Adair Co. KYIt isn't just because she is pretty that Billy Joe Fudge identifies this large but se... (click photo title to read more)

  10. Insects of Kentucky: Dinner time for Mantis (Photo ID: 36429)
    1535 Bull Run RoadReply to request for Grasshopper Recipe: "While I have eaten some pretty strange things in my life - up here at Tu... (click photo title to read more)

  11. Insects of Kentucky:
    Dinner party for The Mantis and the Butterflies
    (Photo ID: 36419)
    Egypt, KYIt all started as gala dinner party, George Rice tells us. All the guests were enjoying themselves, having fun, eating well, livin... (click photo title to read more)

  12. New Breed of Hummingbird? (Photo ID: 36357)
    Keltner RD, Columbia, KY"I found this praying mantis resting on my hummingbird feeder. Needless to say, the birds wouldn't come around unti... (click photo title to read more)

  13. Preying in Greensburg, KY (Photo ID: 31982)
    Can you see me now! Johnietta Jessie, Edmonton, KY, was looking after her friend, George-Etta Knight Sullivan at the Greensburg, KY, Cow Da... (click photo title to read more)

  14. Insects of KY: Praying Mantis or Mantid, up close and personal (Photo ID: 31752)
    A carnivore with an attitude. Praying mantids prey on other, mostly bad bugs.... (click photo title to read more)

  15. Insects of KY: Praying Mantis (Photo ID: 31686)
    Francis Salyers took this neat picture of a praying mantis who is casting a fascinating shadow. ... (click photo title to read more)

  16. Unusual tree on Leatherwood Creek (Photo ID: 31415)
    Some see praying mantis, some see ET in unusual tree: "I don't remember when I took this picture, but it was back in the spring on the ... (click photo title to read more)

  17. Praying mantis (Photo ID: 27853)
    Melissa Taylor adds another portrait of a fascinating insect, this one a smaller praying mantis, on a flower petal. For two more praying ma... (click photo title to read more)

  18. Adair County Wildlife: Fishing spider (Photo ID: 27554)
    Nature photographer Shamarie Claiborne wrote that, after spotting a praying mantis, which reminded her of God, she looked on the wall and s... (click photo title to read more)

  19. Adair County Wildlife: In preyerful mode (Photo ID: 27553)
    IT MUST HAVE TAKEN THE PATIENCE of A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER but Shamarie Claiborne caught this praying mantis in a supplicant sta... (click photo title to read more)

  20. Insects of Adair County: Praying mantis (Photo ID: 24844)
    "THIS LITTLE GUY LOVED TO HAVE HIS PICTURE MADE", Betty Sue Jasper wrote with this photograph Sunday morning. "He gave me a lot of differen... (click photo title to read more)

  21. Walking stick: Gradyville bug is big guy (Photo ID: 22457)
    THIS BIG BUG is a walking stick, varieties of which are the longest insects in the United States, several sites indicate. This one in the Greater Grad... (click photo title to read more)

 Most recent STORIES matching your search for 'praying mantis'...
  1. The Day of the Mantis (Story ID: 105435)
    By Pen Waggener Hailey wanted to play outside yesterday, and it was one of those perfect summer afternoons, with big puffy clouds in... (click title to read more)




 

































 
 
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