Picture taken in Nanoose Bay, BC, Canada. The little guy is a little more than an inch. Ground mantis is native to BC. You have to enlarge picture.
Is this a mantis or grasshopper?
This is a robber fly (family Asilidae). These all are ambush predators on other small arthropods, mainly other insects.
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