This morning when Richard and I went out to move the cows and cut sprouts in the pasture, we saw this praying mantis who appeared to be very pregnant. At least, that’s what we figured the big belly was from. When we first saw her, she was upright on this bush. By the time we came back with the camera, she had reversed position and was hanging upside down in the dried iron weed. I took a series of pictures because I thought she looked really cool. The sun was going back and forth behind the clouds, so some photos have better light than others.
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See, she isn’t dead; in the last photo she’s giving me the evil eye!







