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    #16
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    SWEET! I have never seen a stick bug ! I see praying mantis all the time though
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      #17
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      Absolutely beautiful.... I love seeing new creatures of nature. Thank you for sharing. I live in Michigan also, recently went up to the UP for a trip back in June. Northern Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior... such beautiful places, beautiful formations/land untouched for thousands of years. I suggest anyone to visit Michigan's UP before it's destroyed by the human decline </cynicism and realism>. I like to think there are parts of the world that will stay in tact, but out reign has even reached the devastation of the glorious Amazon...


      Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
      Yup - stickbugs and praying mantises... so cool, I get excited everytime I find one!
      I have a wide soft spot for both. I adore the stickbug far more, though. I haven't been blessed to see one of those beauties in many years. I can't wait to see another.

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        #18
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        Wonderful state, isn't it?

        Did you get up to Tequamenon Falls while you were in the UP? That's one of my favorite places to camp - spent my honeymoon there...
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          #19
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          It's been a bunper year for bugs around here...

          Speaking of praying mantises, here's one I found on the window screen last night -





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            #20
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            That's really cute! Great find Corbin

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              #21
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              Thanks, PharaohKatt!

              Although I don't think I'd call the mantis cute. I was thinking more along the lines of an alien from the Planet of Sudden Death.

              But cute works too .
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                #22
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                Come on, mantises are completely cute. With their little bug eyes, the pointy feet, the blending in to grass. Insects are cute ^_^

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                  #23
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                  I think the mantis is pretty cute...I mean, the females obviously think the male is cute enough to eat...
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                    #24
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                    Eewe... just eewe...

                    Well, I hope it was worth it to him...
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                      #25
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                      Reminds me of my ex-wife!
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                        #26
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                        NOTE: I did NOT take this photo, but still an interesting bee



                        When I was younger I was helping my friend and her neighbor do some yard work when I heard her scream. She found a nest of these guys on the ground! I think their official name is Chrysididae, but they are also called the Cuckoo wasp.
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                          #27
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                          Wow! Look at those metalic colors! It looks like anodized niobium...
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                            #28
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                            [QUOTE=thalassa;50315]I think the mantis is pretty cute...I mean, the females obviously think the male is cute enough to eat...
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                            That's scary!
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