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Egyptian Flower Mantis Nymph

Blepharopsis mendica

Photo by Bernadette S
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

small mantis nymph, white and green stripes

Habitat:

spotted on an acacia tree in a coastal desert wadi (Wadi G'Nai)

Notes:

aka Devil's Flower Mantis, Thistle Mantis, and Arab Mantis

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Comments (40)

Impressive, Congrats !!!
must be a lovely sight! As it is these are friendly creatures.
Thank you! Shokran! It is an honor and I am happy to share some desert critters from Egypt with with world. :-)
Marvelous! truly well camouflaged
Great shot, congratulations on SOTD!
What a great critter. Congratulations for your SOTD !!
Congratulations, Bernadette! This is new to my eyes and thank you so much for sharing.
Congratulations, Bernadette! :)
Congratulations..Very well deserved and really amazing :)
Congratulations Bernadette, wonderful series!
Lovely series, congrats on sotd.
Beautiful Mantis. Congratulations on SOTD
Congratulations Bernadette, your cool mantis nymph has earned you Spotting of the Day! A mantis nymph waits well camouflaged in an Acacia tree waiting to ambush prey in our Spotting of the Day. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153425436420603&set=a.10152383557885603.943728.10150120463815603&type=1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/396532102755135488
Thank you all for your kind comments! @Gilma, from his head to where his body is bent is about 4 cm.
What a stunning creature! Fantastic spotting Bernadette.
That is one gorgeous Mantis!! Great series, Bernadette S. It looks pretty big in the picture but you say it is a Nymph, what size was it? You did a great job with the pictures if it was big and a fantastic job if it was little... : )
It is so nice. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks, Luis! He was a cutie, Despina. :-) Lucky for me he was sitting right at eye level so as I went close to the acacia to smell the beautiful flowers, he was easy to spot!

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