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23-JUL-2015 Paul AKA Sparkey2

I'm Hungry.

He was lurking under the heat pump!

Who knew praying mantis had great vision?? Not me, every time I came close with the camera he would high tail it away so I captured him and a trip into the frig he went. He was much more cooperative at 10 minutes in there.

Canon EOS 6D
1/200s f/6.3 at 100.0mm iso50 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge28-Jul-2015 22:45
Very, very fascinating, thanks for the update and image in Pending. Oddly, I am really enjoying this, as are you apparently....lol....Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge27-Jul-2015 12:52
I dropped a photo of him eating the jumper in Pending. Paul
Canon Image Challenge26-Jul-2015 04:33
I still have him downstairs and wanted to try to shoot him catching food and eating it. Today I captured a lightning bug and put him in with Spike (that's what I call him). Spike was very shy and intimidated by the LB no doubt due to his size since he's young and small for a mantis. So I removed the LB and found a jumping spider and put the jumper in the frig for 10 min since he was pissed and wanted out of the cup I had him in. I had the camera and the lights ready to shoot when I took the jumper out of the frig and dropped him in with Spike. Three seconds was all it took Spike to get him and start devouring him.
I got several shots but I have not downloaded them to the PC yet, I hope they are interesting and show detail. Later when I went back down to see how his meal was progressing, Spike had him 100% gone, not a trace left of the jumper so I was right, he was hungry.
It was fun so I might try it again tomorrow.... I love little jumping spiders they are quite fascinating but watching Spike take him was equally interesting. Ok Ive babbled on long enough! Paul
Canon Image Challenge25-Jul-2015 06:05
I am actually impressed by your little refrigerator trick...it is particularly smart and, besides being intelligent, it leads to really fine pictures like this.

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge25-Jul-2015 01:33
I like this shot; though I think it is ticked off at you for the side trip to the arctic.

Jim