The Mantis Project :: [Back to Photography] Hold Mouse over to see title | numbers in brackets (2) indicate multiple images I've always been absolutely fascinated with praying mantises since the first time I encountered one. Every now and then we'd rescue one from the pool, or find one in the lawn in our yard, but they certainly weren't common. My love of the silly things was cemented when I found a rather large one that quite delicately took the broken pieces of my dog's jerky treat to eat. Ever so politely even! Eventually I got my digital camera and started taking photos of them whenever we found them - large ones, tiny ones, hidden in the grass, crawling up my mom's arm. My photo page already shows off a few of them: Mantis Project: This in theory follows my attempts to hatch a bunch of mantis egg cases (oothecas) I collected over the winter. They're not out yet but there should be some updates in the next week or so. [March 23, 2009]

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