A lovely day in the garden
#insects #spiders #macro #photography #bee #mantis #fly #hoverfly #wildlife

Leaf Me Be 🌿 for #wildlifewednesday

Another one for the books! Saw my first Praying Mantis this week! ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #green #summer #mantis #prayingmantis #macromittwoch #insectsofthefediverse #insect #macro #closeup #macrophotography #nature #urbannature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #urbangarden #italia #italy #canonphotography #canon

Räuberisches Insekt im Mini-Format: junge Mantis am Zitrusblatt auf der Terrasse 🐥
#insekten #mantis #mallorca

Neighbours.

Mantises mainly perceive green and ultraviolet light, while red is almost invisible to them. Their vision is also much less sharp, except in a small central area (the fovea) used to focus on prey, while the rest is mostly for detecting movement. So I tried to roughly suggest how it might have perceived my local electromagnetic field and the utterly negligible gravitational footprint.
Made in GIMP using stacked layers: red channel zeroed and saturation reduced to simulate green/UV vision; pixelization and Gaussian blur to approximate the low-resolution sampling of the ommatidia; a less-blurred central layer with a feathered oval mask over a more blurred, desaturated peripheral layer. Added just for fun on top, a hexagonal Mosaic layer to hint at the faceted structure of the compound eye.

#macro #macrophotography #biodiversity #insects #insectsaturday #mantis