Dawn
This photograph fits both the challenges , so I decided to share it here today.
Praying mantis’ are pretty common in the garden, they are usually green or brown in color. This one I saw in the garden today is yellowish green, more on the yellow side than green. I haven’t seen something like this before.
I hope that this guy is eating up all the mealy bugs in the Mexican sunflower. Mexican sunflowers are gorgeous bushes with bunches of flowers at every branch tip. However these plants also attract mealy bugs like bees are attracted to flowers.
It is always fun to walk around with a camera in hand, you don’t know what you will find. I was happy to have spotted this guy.
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Do you like seeing insects in your garden?
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Do you like seeing insects in your garden?
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Are you creeped out by insects?
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Are you creeped out by insects?
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great shot 🙂 can I say I am creeped out by people asking the question are you creeped out by insects?
sorry couldn’t help that!
i am a huge fan of the insect world. i love the praying Mantis. They arrive in my world around the beginning of May!
Thanks for the compliment LOL . I enjoy watching insects as well. I was try to take pictures of a firebug today but it kept hiding behind the huge leaves of the okra plant.
that would bug me as well.
🙂
once the jokes start there really isn’t an off switch.
LOL doc was the pun really intended ?
yes ma’am once the jokes start it is hard for me to stop them. hopefully, that doesn’t BUG you too much!
Such a gorgeous capture. I don’t enjoy the insect much as I am scared of them, and I don’t know which ones are harmful to the plants too.
Praying mantis eat aphids and other insects which harm plants so I let them be.
Love the photo and the color!
So bright that you need shades to see it LOL
Great picture, dear Dawn … I like to see insects in my garden just not the ones that do me harm
Thank you dear Lado, I would like to see snakes here myself.
Why do you want snakes in your garden ….. I can’t see them as well in the garden
Opps, I meant to say I wouldn’t like to see snakes here, sorry. One creature I really don’t want to have anything to do with.
I found it really weird …. this is the only animal I really don’t want to meet …. there are only two species in our world that are poisonous and there are only a few more
I feel the same way too 🙂