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European dwarf mantis

Ameles spallanzania

Photo by FotisAngel
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

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found it up in the White mountains at 1550m altitude.when i tried to get better photos it tried to scare me by opening its tiny wings as you can see in the second photo.

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Comments (2)
FotisAngel
thank you so much for your comment.it is so cute indeed and great experience to watch it
Liana
Amazing series of pictures FotisAngel. It is so cute! Thank you for sharing :)

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