Corralitas Drive: Praying Mantis

Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 14, 2015.  A 4" long Praying Mantis was was hanging upside down inside a patio umbrella.  (Click on photos to enlarge.)  

If you look closely at the above photo, she's cleaning one of her antenna.  She seem to have very large and wide abdomen and  check out the spikes on her front legs!  


Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 14, 2015.  She has excellent camouflage for a