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Wandering violin mantis

Gongylus gongylodes

Photo by Benno Ibold
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Size 10 cm,
lurking hunter,
prey: flying insects

Habitat:

sunny dry aereas with bushes

Notes:

Home bred animal

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Comments (12)
Mark Ridgway
This is an amazing species. Please put the location to Alpen, Germany if you bred this one. Location is for specimen not species. Thank you.
dotun55
OMG! This is one crazy mantis.
Leuba Ridgway
Another great mantis -you must have a fantastic collection of photos from all over the world, Bennolbold ! Thanks for sharing these.
AntónioGinjaGinja
Wow,amazing capture BennoIbold,beautiful,congrats and thanks for sharing these beautys with us
RiekoS
These are my favorite too!
Dan Doucette
Wow! The fourth photo really gives you a sense of what it looks like.
JC_Forester
That is a great Mantis! Awesome find. :-)
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PublishedJuly 26, 2013

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