I first saw this mantis and thought it was interesting so I snapped a photo...
Later on in the day I came across another mantis.
I decided to watch it as I worked...
When I came back it had grabbed a grasshopper on the fencepost.
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In this photo and the next the mantis is eating the side of the grasshopper
In this photo I zoomed in as best I could on the side of the grasshopper that the mantis had been eating... do you see the missing section of the grasshopper?
Mantis goes back to eating...
This is the last photo I got to take... the mantis had decapitated the head and eaten it. When I went back for another picture the grasshopper was all gone. I hope you enjoyed my picture story.
Sorry if the photos got rotated... they were all in the correct orientation on my phone when I uploaded them.