Today, please appreciate the article about mantises written by an excellent photographer @prairierenjiachangyun. This is a set of photos of mantises he took.

Today I would like to invite you to appreciate the article about mantises written by an excellent photographer @prairierenjiachangyun. This is a set of photos of mantises he took.

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Picture and text: Prairie People Changyun

Shooting mobile phone: Huawei p40

I have been fond of taking pictures with my mobile phone for three years. I am especially interested in various small insects, because some insects are so small that it is usually very difficult to take pictures with the naked eye. It is difficult to find, and the color of their bodies is relatively close to the surrounding environment. Only by zooming in with the macro lens of your mobile phone can you see its appearance and posture clearly.

Whenever spring arrives, as the temperature gradually rises, the eggs of various insects slowly begin to hatch, such as Seven-spotted ladybugs, butterflies, damselflies, dragonflies, jumping spiders, snails As well as all kinds of smaller insects, I prefer to photograph them.

In the past few years, at the turn of late spring and early summer, I will find traces of some small praying mantises, maybe because they have just been hatched and sometimes are too small. The small dead mantises are the kind that have just hatched from eggs and can’t even distinguish the posture of their bodies).

Mantis belongs to the genus , class Insecta , with green or khaki body, triangular head, filamentous antennae, slender chest, two pairs of wings, and sickle-shaped front legs. Predates pests and is beneficial to agriculture. In some areas, it is also called the knife beetle.

Praying mantises generally live for 6 to 8 months, hatch in spring, and reproduce and mate in autumn. After the male and female mantises mate, the female eats the male. The female mantis also dies shortly after laying her eggs. Praying mantises are very tenacious and can survive for about ten days even if they lose their heads.

A mantis eats its mate to continue its offspring. The inhibitory center of the male mantis nervous system is in the head. As long as it loses its head, the inhibitory function will also be lost, and the semen will flow into the female mantis to ensure the fertilization of the eggs. While mating, the female praying mantis eats the male from the head to the tail, all the way to the abdomen. At this time, the female mantis is not only full, but the eggs in her body are also fully fertilized.

Praying mantises usually ovulate in the fall and hatch in the spring and summer of next year. The newborn mantises basically live and grow in the place of their birth for a long time.

I like to observe and photograph the little mantis because it is naive, cute and cute. Even if you bring the phone camera very close to it, it will not run away, but it will keep twisting its triangular head and looking at each other. When you use your hand or When other things touch it, it will raise two big scissors to protest at you. If it doesn't work, just retreat. Sometimes it will jump on your phone, your fingers or crawl on your body. It's really interesting. Extremely.

The following is a small mantis that I took with my mobile phone at 5x telephoto (without an external macro lens) some time ago. Everyone is welcome to comment! Thanks!

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