I was looking back to see
If you were looking back to see
If I was looking back to see
If you were looking back at me.
Photo above reminded me of an ole song from several years ago by Jim Ed Brown ( I Was Looking Back To See)
I found this carnivorous insect hanging
onto a dead tomato vine in my garden. We humans like to watch other creatures, but how cool when they turn their attention on us. That is what happened here when I got a little too close to this Praying Mantis. They get their name due to the way they hold their front legs together as if praying. Praying Mantis are predatory insects and they eat almost any insect that gets within reach of their claws. There are accounts of a Praying Mantis catching a hummingbird.
"On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of a grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): Physician, professor, lecturer, author.
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