guess i'm good right now with the plant posting, it's time for a little bit of inverts-at-night posting following my portfolio building around here 🦗

they're kinda my specialty so we'll probably have a lot of up-close crawlies in the dark here in the following days - hope you guys like 'em!

Almost all the pics were taken during field research at night in the Atlantic or Amazon rainforest years ago 🖤

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A magyarországi fogólábúak imádkozósáska-félék családja lenyűgözően sokszínű! Fedezd fel velünk a felhasználók által rögzített fényképeket ezen a linken: https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/csalad/mantidae/talalatok #fogólábúak #Mantodea #imádkozósáskaFélék #Mantidae #CitizenScience
Mantidae - imádkozósáska-félék

A Mantidae - imádkozósáska-félék családhoz tartozó észlelések listája

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Telegraph

Predators abound. Here, the cutest one: a mantis nymph (juvenile), Ameles spallanzania, as beautiful and gracious as it hops about the drying twigs of grass as it is deadly to any little creature within its sights.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309793118

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European Dwarf Mantis (Ameles spallanzania)

European Dwarf Mantis from Otok Hvar, Jelsa, Split-Dalmatia, HR on August 28, 2025 at 05:12 PM by Albert Cardona. Nymph

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👏 Well done!

I've been rescuing bugs left and right as a way of illustrating how tame and harmless they are to us (most of them, and not in Australia 😆 ).

The last one: this adult praying mantis (about 10 cm) found crawling on a friend's shirt, to the dismay and screaming of "kill it! kill it!" of his wife next to him. I held it on my hand until she realised it was not going to harm me, or her, or anyone, and then let it hop onto a nearby twig. "But aren't you afraid it will bite you? – Ma'am, I'm not a fly. This is the best natural cleaner of house bugs you can get, even available for order from an internet shop."
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306727909
#iNaturalist #Mantodea #mantis #entomology

European Mantis (Mantis religiosa)

European Mantis from Otok Hvar, Jelsa, Split-Dalmatia, HR on August 15, 2025 at 09:34 PM by Albert Cardona. Found at night on my friend’s shoulder, I brought it to a nearby tree.

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