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Chinese Mantis

Tenodera sinensis

Photo by LuckyLogan
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Description:

About 4 inches long (10 cm). All in all kind of a freaky bug.

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Comments (4)
Sintija Valucka
It really is an amazing feeling to find something you've been looking for a long time :) Congratulations!
LuckyLogan
Thanks Jemma and sintija.valucka! I've been looking for one of these all summer and was super excited to find one.
HemaShah
love the details!! i am now able to lift snails ,crossing roads and deliver them to safer places. I hope that one day I might be able to ask a praying mantis to hop on my palm.

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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 10, 2013

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