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Common Walkingstick
If this walkingstick had not moved, I doubt we would have seen it!
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Common Walkingstick
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Grizzled Mantis
Gonatista grisea
Grizzled means sprinkled or streaked with gray which this mantid certainly is. -
Mating Two-Striped Walkingsticks
Anisomorpha buprestoides
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Praying Mantis eating Dragonfly
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Praying Mantis eating Gulf Fritillary
Stagmomantis carolina
We witnessed this Carolina Mantis capture this unsuspecting Gulf Fritillary when it went to nectar on the pickerelweed. -
Carolina Mantis Eggcase
Stagmomantis carolina
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Carolina Mantis on Pitcherplant
Stagmomantis carolina
A praying mantis on a yellow trumpet pitcherplant was an unexpected sight in a pitcherplant savannah. -
Carolina Mantis
Stagmomantis carolina
Here's Looking at You! The praying mantis was perched on a branch and I went under the motionless mantis while it was "praying." -
Two-Striped Walkingstick
Anisomorpha buprestoides