#mantoidea

📍 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina 🗓 Date: July 12, 2025 🐾 Media: Image 🌿 Species: Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) 📝 Notes: Medium-sized praying mantis commonly found in gardens, fields, forest edges, and suburban habitats across the southeastern and central United States. Color varies widely—green, brown, or mottled—providing effective camouflage against vegetation.

Front raptorial legs are adapted for grasping prey, which consists of small insects and other arthropods. Often seen perched motionless on plants, waiting for prey to approach.

Giant Mantis Ootheca

Belonging to the Giant Rainforest Mantis, if you can believe it.

Hierodula majuscula

Parasitized Mantis Ootheca

They’re small, but can you see the circular holes at the base of the ootheca?

Parasite - Unidentified, Superfamily Ichneumonoidea

Parasite Host - Orthodera ministralis

Molt of the Giant Rainforest Mantis.

Hierodula majuscula

Ootheca of the Australian Garden Mantis (Orthodera ministralis).

I’ve never seen one this foamy before, must be freshly laid.

I think I have too many photos of insect camouflage...

Archimantis latistyla

Nice, cute little Mantis on a giant taro leaf in dusk, 5 Aug 2013, Hong Kong Island east.

Species ID: Hapalopeza (Spilomantis) occipitalis (Westwood, 1889)

Chinese names: 頂蝦螳 / 毛螳

[Mantidae, Iridopteriginae]