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My dad and I went exploring out behind our house for a little while with our cameras. Its fun doing that and though it was sprinkling rain a little bit on and off, the lighting was just perfect for photos.
The sky looked like this:
I found a huge praying mantis. Just look at the colour that this mantis has on its wings! Its the first one I've ever seen actually fly. I knew they could, but wow. :)
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Title: Grand Praying Mantis [September 9, 2008]
Notes: I'm getting to have enough mantis photos that I'm having trouble deciding what to call them. And thats awesome! :D These are some of the coolest insects, even if the bigger ones make me a little nervous.
Theres a picture thats missing from being here, but thats because the subject moved far too quickly for us to get a photo. It was a tiny little snakeling, maybe have a centimeter wide and 15-20cm long at most. It was almost translucent looking. I found it trying to get away in a little puddle of water that had collected in an abandoned tire back there. It quickly darted off and through a hole but we got a second glimpse at it when my dad carefully tilted up the tire. It had a strange dark spot on the back of its head and might have been a baby rattler. I wish we could have gotten the photo, found proof of its identity, and used that as an argument against turning that field into yet another new housing development. :(
[Some housing development is fine, but theres a LOT locally, so much so that there isn't enough water currently to support them some summers. And there aren't many open places like this left in my town either.]
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