Mantis at Prayer

Photo Information

Taken:	1 September 2007 16:13 Granger, Texas
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 80
	15.8mm, 0 EV
	f4.5
	1/160

Backstory

I was at the Granger house to do a little to get ready to sell it when I noticed this lovely climbing the chain link fence. He was wary of me but totally unafraid. I was too big to eat and I tried not to be threatening, so I wasn’t very interesting to him.

As I recall, the day was hot and sunny, as befits the first of September in Central Texas. Sweltering is another word for it with lots of flying insects around—perfect conditions for mantises to hunt. This one seems to have been pretty successful.

–6 April 2012