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Andyk2212 Takoradi, Ghana Mar 15, 2010

I know it's a Praying Mantis but can anyone be more specific? I have them by the 20's in my garden and are very interesting to watch feeding on flies etc. This fly was gone in 4 mins!

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Andyk2212 Takoradi, Ghana Mar 15, 2010

Oops the pic is missing. Here it is.

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Andyk2212 Takoradi, Ghana Mar 15, 2010

Another picture.

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Andyk2212 Takoradi, Ghana Mar 15, 2010

But sometimes they too get to be dinner. In this case for a female (pregnant) Agama agama!

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helenchild Decatur, GA Mar 16, 2010

Fascinating but macabre.
Helen

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Mar 17, 2010

The adult mantis appears to be a Sphodromantis sp.; possibly Sphodromantis lineola - see http://tinyurl.com/yhha29j for an image.

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melody Benton, KY(Zone 7a) Mar 17, 2010

suunto, can you check your link? I'm not getting a good URL.

Thanks!

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Mar 17, 2010

I just tried it, and it worked fine for me. If you try again and it doesn't work, just Google images for "Sphodromantis lineola"

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melody Benton, KY(Zone 7a) Mar 17, 2010

I get an access denied page.

Here's the google page: http://images.google.com/images?q=Sphodromantis+lineola+images&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=GzyhS_6KBJS0tgffuunyBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQsAQwAA

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Mar 17, 2010

I'm not sure that I understand. Did you get an 'Access Denied' message for the http://tinyurl.com/yhha29j URL or the http://images.google.com/images?q=Sphodromantis lineola imag... one? From the latter, you should have been able to view http://tolweb.org/Sphodromantis/12787 which essentially is the same image as the one I referenced earlier.

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melody Benton, KY(Zone 7a) Mar 17, 2010

This is the link that I got the access denied: http://tinyurl.com/yhha29j
The other page opened fine and all of the images were viewable.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Mar 17, 2010

Puzzling. I just tried opening the link again, both from your message as well as from mine, and both worked fine for me!

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melody Benton, KY(Zone 7a) Mar 17, 2010

Hmm...odd.
These links usually open just fine for me, but apparently this one doesn't like something about my system.

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helenchild Decatur, GA Mar 17, 2010

FYI - http://tinyurl.com/yhha29j doesn't open for me either.
Helen

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Andyk2212 Takoradi, Ghana Mar 24, 2010

suunto, thank-you very much for your id.

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