It’s always worth poking around the garden flowers in Zimbabwe to see what’s around. I was cutting flowers for my host at yesterday’s lunch when I saw this mantis nymph. It ambushes bees as the come to the flowers. It will be around for a while yet so I’ll see what other photos I can get over the next few days.
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- Eyed flower mantid nymph (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi)
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- The business end – be glad you are not a bee.
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- Best of the bunch so far!
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- After nearly 10 days of trying with a recalcitrant mantis, wind blowing the flowers around and clouds obscuring the sun, not to mention my mistakes – I finally got the photo I wanted.
Zimbabwe Absurdity 
Now that is a cool and colorful bug. Great photos.
Beautiful but ruthless! Poor bees.
Nah, there are thousands in my chimney so a few less is a good thing!