Little animal story from Cyprus at Christmas... pics
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2024 8:19 pm
The sunny weather still allows to have some hours on the sunbed at lunchtime, so I was lucky to watch Praying Mantis female and male moving into their winter quarter. As they are very slow moving it was enough time to bring the camera into action for some photos to share it with you for Christmas.
This is their quarter for the winter obviously as there is a lot of action with lizards, bees, beetles, worms, ants....
Female Mantis just arrived at the scene and having a good look at the beetle in front...
watched by a lizard some centimeters away
Obviously she carries a lot of eggs
After some minutes she reached the center of the rosemary bush
not far away from a male Mantis, scared to move too much
and finally the already made so called "Mantis egg" to protect plenty of eggs from the Winter colds
source: https://www.whatsthatbug.com/praying-ma ... ick-guide/
I wish everyone on here Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year.
Max
This is their quarter for the winter obviously as there is a lot of action with lizards, bees, beetles, worms, ants....
Female Mantis just arrived at the scene and having a good look at the beetle in front...
watched by a lizard some centimeters away
Obviously she carries a lot of eggs
After some minutes she reached the center of the rosemary bush
not far away from a male Mantis, scared to move too much
and finally the already made so called "Mantis egg" to protect plenty of eggs from the Winter colds
source: https://www.whatsthatbug.com/praying-ma ... ick-guide/
I wish everyone on here Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year.
Max