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melvynyeo — Simple Mantis Portrait

Published: 2013-07-22 10:09:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 6119; Favourites: 182; Downloads: 86
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Description Kindda look like alien Taken at night in Singapore.

Quote from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis
The mantis thorax consists of a prothorax, a mesothorax, and a metathorax. In all species apart from the genus Mantoida, the prothorax, which bears the head and forelegs, is much longer than the other two thoracic segments. The prothorax is also flexibly articulated, allowing for a wide range of movement of the head and forelimbs while the remainder of the body remains more or less immobile. The articulation of the neck is also remarkably flexible; some species of mantis can rotate the head nearly 180 degrees.

Mantids may have a visual range of up to 20 metres. Their compound eyes may comprise up to 10,000 ommatidia. The eyes are widely spaced and laterally situated, affording a wide binocular field of vision) and, at close range, precise stereoscopic vision. The dark spot on each eye is a pseudopupil. As their hunting relies heavily on vision, mantids are primarily diurnal. Many species will however fly at night, and then may be attracted to artificial lights. Nocturnal flight is especially important to males in search of less-mobile females that they locate by detecting their pheromones. Flying at night exposes mantids to fewer bird predators than diurnal flight would. Many mantises also have an auditory thoracic organ that helps them to avoid bats by detecting their echolocation and responding evasively.[8]

Mantids can be loosely categorized as being macropterous (long-winged), brachypterous (short-winged), micropterous (vestigial-winged), or apterous (wingless). If not wingless, a mantis will have two sets of wings: the outer wings, or tegmina, are usually narrow, opaque, and leathery. They function as camouflage and as a shield for the hind wings. The hind wings are much broader, more delicate, and transparent. They are the main organs of flight, if any. Brachypterous species are at most minimally capable of flight, other species not at all. Even in many macropterous species the female is much heavier than the male, has much shorter wings, and rarely takes flight if she is capable of it at all.

The abdomen of all mantises consist of ten tergites with a corresponding set of nine sternites visible in males and seven visible in females. The slim abdomen of most males allows them to take flight more easily while the thicker abdomen of the females houses the reproductive machinery for generating the ootheca. The abdomen of both sexes ends in a pair of cerci.
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Comments: 37

ayumi-x [2014-10-31 21:57:23 +0000 UTC]

gorgeous <3

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sarahbuhr [2014-02-04 01:47:02 +0000 UTC]

your wonderful work has been featured here: Macro feature #1                                                                                                                          
                                     

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Lime-Plutonium [2013-12-16 14:03:49 +0000 UTC]

They're so cute.. my favorite bugs. :3

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lalalacool [2013-08-11 12:44:19 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful

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kr8tivekatie [2013-08-10 06:23:57 +0000 UTC]

what lens do you use?

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melvynyeo In reply to kr8tivekatie [2013-08-10 08:08:51 +0000 UTC]

I'm using canon 100mmL lens. Thanks!

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thanatos333 [2013-08-05 04:25:11 +0000 UTC]

Esa unión o base de las antenas, me parece genial

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melvynyeo In reply to thanatos333 [2013-08-10 08:08:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Kyero [2013-08-04 16:54:03 +0000 UTC]

One of the few bugs that dont make me shiver at this close. 

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melvynyeo In reply to Kyero [2013-08-10 08:09:06 +0000 UTC]

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Countess-Grotesque [2013-07-31 03:03:32 +0000 UTC]

I adore having these as pets, they act much like cats! Great shot!

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melvynyeo In reply to Countess-Grotesque [2013-07-31 05:23:21 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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Aguse [2013-07-28 18:19:18 +0000 UTC]

nice eyes


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melvynyeo In reply to Aguse [2013-07-31 05:23:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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fishofglass [2013-07-28 17:19:26 +0000 UTC]

good!

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melvynyeo In reply to fishofglass [2013-07-31 05:23:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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Zadokshmuel [2013-07-28 06:41:57 +0000 UTC]

WOW !!! well done !

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melvynyeo In reply to Zadokshmuel [2013-07-31 05:23:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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eclecticechoes [2013-07-24 15:05:33 +0000 UTC]

Awesome shot! You do amazing macro insect photography. Mind if I ask what the f stop was for this one? You go the almost the entire head in beautiful focus and knowing the normal head positioning of these beauties that must not have been easy!

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melvynyeo In reply to eclecticechoes [2013-07-31 05:25:01 +0000 UTC]

I think should be f16. As long as the focal plane is align correctly, most of the head will be in focus.

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dirtsaminou [2013-07-23 11:24:34 +0000 UTC]

I love it.

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melvynyeo In reply to dirtsaminou [2013-07-24 12:21:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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diskfire [2013-07-23 05:48:36 +0000 UTC]

Wow, it really does look like an alien.

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melvynyeo In reply to diskfire [2013-07-24 12:21:51 +0000 UTC]

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RainbowMarimo [2013-07-22 23:59:35 +0000 UTC]

I'd never think I could ever look at insects that up close

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melvynyeo In reply to RainbowMarimo [2013-07-24 12:21:56 +0000 UTC]

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LizzieGD [2013-07-22 17:56:10 +0000 UTC]

that's amazing!!

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melvynyeo In reply to LizzieGD [2013-07-24 12:21:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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herofan135 [2013-07-22 14:55:18 +0000 UTC]

Such a cool shot, really wicked!

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melvynyeo In reply to herofan135 [2013-07-24 12:22:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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NatalieHollick [2013-07-22 11:32:15 +0000 UTC]

How on earth do you get such stunning pictures at night?!! O:

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melvynyeo In reply to NatalieHollick [2013-07-24 12:22:28 +0000 UTC]

Good flash diffusion

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NatalieHollick In reply to melvynyeo [2013-07-24 12:31:32 +0000 UTC]

Hehe xD

I love your work though, so much! All your photo's are beautiful. Insects, Arachnids and other small things shown in detail we would otherwise miss.

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melvynyeo In reply to NatalieHollick [2013-07-24 12:58:56 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like them

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NatalieHollick In reply to melvynyeo [2013-07-24 13:02:31 +0000 UTC]

Welcome, it's hard not to though hehe

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Meisaims [2013-07-22 10:11:38 +0000 UTC]

I never noticed the three little eyes in the middle!

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melvynyeo In reply to Meisaims [2013-07-22 10:25:50 +0000 UTC]

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