I knew he was good at camouflage. But this little guy was in a place he shouldn’t have been, and I caught him red-handed. He should have been camouflaged in a dry twig or reed. Instead of trying to escape, he stuck to his spot. What guts!
The golden dwarf mantis (Ameles sp.) is a praying mantis belonging to the family Amelidae distributed in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The mantis is yellow to brown with small, rough spots all over its body.
All these photos are my original work, taken with a Xiaomi POCO NFC smartphone and an assembled external macro lens.
