Tenodera aridifolia, Arizona.
photo details: Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens on a Canon EOS 20D
ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/14, indirect strobe in a white box
Just hanging out…
February 10, 2009 by myrmecos
2 Responses
Alex’s Galleries
Recent Photos
Popular Posts
- Things that look like ants but aren't (Part 2)
- How to Identify Queen Ants
- What does it mean to be an eyeless ant?
- The Rogue Taxonomist
- Friday Beetle Blogging: The Eyed Elater
- Friday Beetle Blogging: Palo Verde Beetle
- The eggs that weren't
- North America's charming citronella ants
- Friday Beetle Blogging: Nicrophorus orbicollis
- Above the Ant Line
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Donald Byron Johnson on Reader question: who discovered the sex of ant workers?
- Anonymous on Update on the Rogue Taxonomist
- Ant on Arizona Daily Star covers “Planet of the Ants”
- Ga. Girl on Beware the Cow-Killer
- Anonymous on Beware the Cow-Killer
Categories
Archives
- animation Ants aphids arachnids Argentina arizona army ants art Bees beetles behavior biodiversity biology Biology Links bugs Canon carabidae coleoptera copyright Darwin desert diptera E. O. Wilson ecology entomology Evolution fail fire ants Flies formicidae genetics google haiku Harpegnathos imaging Insect Links Insects invasive species lighting Linepithema macro macrophotography macro photography Martialis media miniscule muppets music myrmecology mystery natural history Nature new species odontomachus Parasites Paratrechina pests pheidole Photography Photography business photoshop phylogenetics phylogeny Pogonomyrmex politics predation Scarabaeidae Science SEM social insects spiders Taxonomy termites travel wasps
Myrmecos Blog 
What a gorgeous mantid! I’ve always had a soft spot for the little critters. (It’s probably somewhere on my fingers, where I was always getting pinched and scratched by the mantids I annoyed when I was a kid.) 🙂
Yeah, it’s just a baby, too. But still a vicious predator.