Mantis Another View
Mar 15, 2020 19:22:01 #
This is a preserved Mantis from the Bill (newtoyou) collection staged for a focus stacking session. It's a good "stay indoors day" today so it provides me the opportunity to put my setup back to a way that I normally keep it and of course, I have to try it out.
Mar 15, 2020 21:01:11 #
Mar 15, 2020 22:28:01 #
kpmac wrote:
A dorsal neck view. Something new, sippy.
Thanks, Kpmac. I thought that the tendons on the back of the neck and the back view of its mouth parts would provide a different perspective of one of my specimens that I've used before in other views.
Mar 15, 2020 23:34:18 #
Mar 16, 2020 09:53:47 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
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Thanks, Mark. Not the beauties of nature that you are known for however it shows details that some may not have seen before.
Mar 16, 2020 10:34:12 #
Mar 16, 2020 12:39:57 #
fjwallace wrote:
I love this view! Thanks for posting!
Thanks, just wanted to do something a bit different and to show the mouthparts which can't be seen from a front view.
Mar 16, 2020 19:06:14 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a preserved Mantis from the Bill (newtoyou) collection staged for a focus stacking session. It's a good "stay indoors day" today so it provides me the opportunity to put my setup back to a way that I normally keep it and of course, I have to try it out.
Sippy, excellent and first time I have seen this view.
Greg
Mar 16, 2020 20:32:25 #
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Mar 17, 2020 00:55:07 #
Mar 17, 2020 10:50:19 #
CLF wrote:
Sippy, excellent and first time I have seen this view.
Greg
Greg
Thanks, Greg. Their mouthparts are quite complex and they use them much like we would use our fingers to eat. They hold their prey with their powerful forelegs and bite into it and use the little finger like mouthparts to pick small pieces and put them into their mouth...."finger food!".
Mar 17, 2020 10:50:48 #
Mar 17, 2020 10:52:50 #
naturepics43 wrote:
Nice angle. Looks great.
Thanks, I enjoy looking at nature's work in magnified ways to reveal details that I can not see otherwise such as the leathery texture of its skin and the tendons on the back of the neck.
Mar 17, 2020 10:53:38 #
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