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Published: 2005-09-14 11:29:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 4832; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 84
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pseudocreobotra wahlbergii - another beautiful, butterfly-like mantis.Related content
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I have featured this wonderful shot in my mantis-collection![link]
I hope you will agree and enjoy!
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wow awesome! it is like a praying mantis and butterfly that's so cool!
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Thanks! The only manipulation here was done by the nature itself!
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I appreciate your comment. Thank You very much!
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I am so totally bowled over by the brilliance of this and by Nature its very self. I came here via the journal feature in s journal. Well spotted by him and I am truly in awe of this magnificent shot.
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Thanks for the visit and fav, greatly appreciated!
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so creepy O_O! At first I thought it wasn't real, that you painted it or something xD. Very cool! where did you take the pic?
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At home, on a chair covered with black t-shirt
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wow, creepy things you live near by xD
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Thank You very much for the comment and fav!
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What a strange and beautiful creature. Great shot.
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I'm happy that You like it
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Great pose! How many mantis breeders do you have in Poland?
I wish we can have these here. I'm 'breeding' the local False Garden mantis I found outside. The eggs are waiting to hatch now.
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We have a few experienced breeders, and some of them have their accounts here (like blepharopsis). In Poland we have only one mantis species and it'very rare, so You in Australia have much more! I buy mantids (or used to buy) from other breeders (not only in Poland) via internet, so You can do that too
I hope Your mantis eggs will hatch soon.
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Indeed, but at the same time beautiful and fascinating. Thanks for visiting
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The capture is super! I've never seen anything like this....amazing as a species and as a photograph!
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Thank You, I'm also glad how this photo came out. Maybe a little too bright (I don't have good flash) but still I consider it one of my best mantis shots. Thanks for faving it
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My pleasure...and you should totally be proud of this!
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Extraordinary and superb capture.......................................
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Thank You very much, I'm glad You like it.
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My pleasure it's a spectacular photograph...................................
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Thanks for faving and comment
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Oh my! another mantis breeder!
the upperbody (thorax) of this species seems bizarrely short and makes it look even weirdier.
great pose and stunning shot! definitely a fav! ^_^
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Thanks for faving it
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That is awesome. I wish we had those things where I live. I've only seen a mantis in my area once. I've seen a stickbug too, but that was back when I was 6 or 7. Haven't seen any around since (and I'm 24).
What did you photograph it against, and what settings did you use to get that absolute black background?
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I wish we had such mantids too - this one comes from my private breed, it normally lives in more exotic places than I live. I live in Poland, where there is one mantis species (never seen one yet) and no stick insects, so You're in a better place
As far as I remember the photo was taken on my chair, I put the stick and the mantis on it, annoyed her a little
I don't have any special equipment, such as macro lenses or flashes, I just use Canon G5 in macro mode.
All of the details of the camera settings You can see on the right in Picture menu below Thumb.
Regards
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It scares me a little (I prefer vertebrates 
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" butterfly-like mantis " ? A to nie jest mantis - like butterfly?
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widac ze plastikowe!!! takich robali NIE MA!!!
swietna galazka, bardzo mi sie podobaja te dyskretne reflexy na niej.
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Dzięki, gałązke "pożyczyłem" od babci z wazonu
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A robaka?
(rety, ale slowo "robak" brzmi teraz obrazliwie)
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widac ze plastikowe!!! takich robali NIE MA!!!
swietna galazka, bardzo mi sie podobaja te dyskratne reflexy na niej.
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This is really superb, so much detail it's unreal, it almost looks like a marble sculpture.
Definitely worth faving
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