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This 'streamside butterfly' is our most familiar riverine Odonate. It is a variable species and numerous forms have been named.\n\n\n\n\n\n
A praying mantis on a flower.
Mantis is a type of mantis originating from the island of Borneo. It has a unique body shape and is colored like dried leaves to disguise itself for prey.
Grasshopper on yellow flower petals - animal behavior.
Adult Male Acontistid Mantis of the Genus Metaphotina
Detailed macro photo of a Tettigoniidae (or katydid), showing its vibrant green color and intricate body pattern. Wulai, Taiwan.
Tettigoniidae, or Katydid Bush Cricket, resting on chrysanthemums .  OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
A close view of piers plant
Tot 30-39mm, Ab 25-32mm, HW 19-23mm.\nOur most delicate Lestes, which is normally easily separated by its statue and coloration, although some Iberian populations recall L. barbarous.\nHabitat: A wide variety of seasonally dry shallow and reedy waters in the south, becoming more critical in the north-west, where it is most abundant in heath and bog lakes with peat moss (Sphagnum) and rushes (Juncus).\nFlight Season: Northern populations mostly emerge in July, flying into November.\nDistribution: Widespread in Europe, although seldom the dominant Lestes species. Distribution recall L. barbarous, and also tends to wander like that species, though rarely in similarly great numbers.\n\nThis Species is to be seen in the describe Habitats, but not as common as L. sponsa in the Netherlands.
watching the helicopter bug in nature
Common Whitetail Dragonfly
The male praying mantis sits on tree branch masquerading against its background and turns its head looking around. Crimean praying mantis (Ameles heldreichi)
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Mantis religiosa on a leaf in Thailand
A very rare leucistic (lacking in pigment) Willow Warbler
Lepidoptera larvae in the wild, North China
Short perennial, the stem with several brown sheaths at the base. Leaves oblong, keeled, shiny-green, the upper leaves smaller and bract-like. Bracts membranous, shorter than the ovary. Flowers greenish-yellow, often with reddish margins and streaks, borne in a slender spike, often many-flowered, each flower manikin-like, with the sepals and petals forming a close hood; lip 12-15mm, pendent, the lateral lobes forming short, narrow ‘arms’ and the central lobe divided into narrow legs; spurless.\nHabitat: Grassland, field boundaries, abandoned quarries, banks and open scrub, rarely along woodland margins, on calcareous soils, to 1500m.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: S & SE Britain, Belgium, Holland, France and Germany.\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.
Helichrysum on the arenarium plant praying mantis beetle. The scientific name of mantis; Empusa fasciata
Newborn wingless praying mantis babies perch on leaves at the edge of a rural rice field.
Dragonfly emerging from the larva case.
adult Green belly bug of the species Diceraeus melacanthus
Barnardia Japonica
dragonfly female hairy
The Banded Demoiselle can be seen flitting around slow-moving rivers, ponds and lakes. ... Male Banded Demoiselles are metallic blue, with broad, dark blue patches on each wing.
A male migrant hawker hanging from a bramble in the English countryside.
Green grasshopper (Phaneroptera sp.) ready to jump
Small insect on the ears of barley, selective focus
A praying mantis  out and about on a bush
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