I hope someone recognizes this ugly bug and can tell me what it might be. I found it on the brick wall outside the house today. Kinda ugly looking and it looks like it's missing a leg. Hope you can see it enough from this photo to tell what it is.
Thanks for any help,
Lin
edited to say: my first thought is a Mantis of some sort but I really have no clue.
This message was edited Jan 6, 2009 1:07 PM
This is indeed a mantid, likely the grizzled mantid, Gonatista grisea - see http://tinyurl.com/6u29hg for an image and http://tinyurl.com/9bk7s5 for a key to Florida mantids.
Thank you so much! The photo at your first link looks exactly like the critter I found!
