{"id":18503,"date":"2010-07-31T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18503"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:17:36","slug":"two-praying-mantises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/31\/two-praying-mantises\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Praying Mantises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until last week, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d seen more than two or three praying mantises in my life, and each time I felt privileged, sort of the way I feel when I see a rainbow. Though I&#8217;ve spotted  rainbows far more frequently. (Yes, even double rainbows, of which I&#8217;ve seen a few.) But last week, I saw <i>two<\/i> praying mantises just a foot or two away from each other.<\/p>\n<p>I was inside working, Irene was outside, and the phone rang. Which had me thinking &#8230; uh, oh. Irene spotted a snake. But she hadn&#8217;t.  She spotted these guys.<\/p>\n<p>First up&#8212;the male.  (Or so I assume.  You tell me.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis12010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis12010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"PrayingMantis12010\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis12010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis12010.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next&#8212;the female. (Or so I again assume.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis22010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis22010-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"PrayingMantis22010\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis22010-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/PrayingMantis22010.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on how fat she is, I <i>think<\/i> the female is about to disgorge an egg sac.  But again, I&#8217;m just guessing.  And online sources are pretty vague about ID-ing these creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Anything you can tell me by looking at these picture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until last week, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d seen more than two or three praying mantises in my life, and each time I felt privileged, sort of the way I feel when I see a rainbow. Though I&#8217;ve spotted rainbows far more frequently. (Yes, even double rainbows, of which I&#8217;ve seen a few.) But last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-18503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18506,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions\/18506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}