Had a little visitor today outside my room!

[gbjim03m]

Agh ha the praying mantis ! Quite a decent size to, say 5 inches. Found him in the shade.

Jim

 

[Retired Member southey]

Thats brilliant! great pics chap

 

[gbjim03m]

Thanks, dwardo uploaded them to bucket for me as the connection out in the sticks is rubbish!

 

[dwardo]

Love they little jig they do when approaching their prey. See you next week bud.

 

[Toddy]

:yikes: not quite the sort of thing I expect to see among my roses.....have they become acclimatised in Cheshire, or are you in other parts just now ?

Pretty cool to get a photo of it though

cheers,
Toddy

 

[sandbender]

I rescued one of those from my kitchen last year, quite an impressive beast they are. Great pics.

 

[gbjim03m]

Love they little jig they do when approaching their prey. See you next week bud.

Yeah they are well funny, Catch you thursday/ friday all going well and they dont mess up my flights!

Toddy thanks, yep just doing a bit for the queen in the desert!!

 

[Retired Member southey]

Yeah they are well funny, Catch you thursday/ friday all going well and they dont mess up my flights!

Toddy thanks, yep just doing a bit for the queen in the desert!!

 

[Toddy]

As bushcraft gear goes, that might be real bush they're in, but it'll never catch on

cheers,
M

 

[Bushwhacker]

Excellent. I wish there was more interest and posts about things like this. Everybody has an interesting creature on their doorstep yet very few pay attention or share them. They can't see past the camping shop.

 

[Toddy]

Sorry gbjim03m, didn't mean to take the thread OT

I didn't know that praying mantis were native to Europe I thought they were some jungle buggit

There you go, you learn something every day

You want photos of newts and robins, and of the muckle great spider that I have a running battle with over ownership of the access to my shed, Bushwhacker ?
Not quite up there with a mantis though

cheers,
M

 

[Retired Member southey]

Its great fun to get on the floor in the garden, me and the kids go for garden safaris a lot, Stephen loves finding pale slugs under the log pile, Fen is BIG time into ants and bee flies!! we found a dried out bee fly yesterday stuck to the Elder, will get some pics in a bit

 

[blacktimberwolf]

On a more somber note, the female mantis eats the male during mating, starting with the head 'cause the male needs to have his head chewed off as it helps with the ejaculation........so he feeds & impregnates at the same time, who said that males were useless.?...

 

[Toddy]

Ah but, I've been reading about them when I realised that I was terminally ignorant of the mantis'.
Research shows that the cannibalism isn't always so, that it's to do with food availability and the, well I suppose Beta males finding a way to reproduce.
Googleing is an interesting research vector

cheers,
M

 

[dwardo]

Its great fun to get on the floor in the garden, me and the kids go for garden safaris a lot, Stephen loves finding pale slugs under the log pile, Fen is BIG time into ants and bee flies!! we found a dried out bee fly yesterday stuck to the Elder, will get some pics in a bit

Garden Safari great idea!

Here you go kid, found your nephew lay flat on his belly playing with his new mate ant

Then later that day boy and his mum whilst outside when she heard a giggle, followed by a cry, a swolen finger and a poor crippled bee. Day of learning indded.

 

[gbjim03m]

Garden Safari great idea!

Here you go kid, found your nephew lay flat on his belly playing with his new mate ant

Then later that day boy and his mum whilst outside when she heard a giggle, followed by a cry, a swolen finger and a poor crippled bee. Day of learning indded.

Toddy, no probs at all, im currently in the middle east, so no sorry not native to Europe, i believe.
Kid, thanks for the phots, ma told be about the bee, bless him. Well the first rule of bushcraft has been learnt, "poke it with a stick next time" Only kidding.

 

[Bushwhacker]

You want photos of newts and robins, and of the muckle great spider that I have a running battle with over ownership of the access to my shed, Bushwhacker ?
Not quite up there with a mantis though

cheers,
M

Yes please, I'd rather see what sort of wildlife people have than which knives, backpacks, or clothes they're wearing.

 

[Toddy]

Yeah, I admit it, me too
That, and the stuff folks make and the places they get to.

cheers,
M