One of the benefits of having a forest as a background, other than learning first-hand to face blood sucking leeches, blood sucking mosquitos, having moulds everywhere, having pollen everywhere, and having ants everywhere, is the diversity of life you hear everyday--today, I found a small mantis in the most unusual of ways.
I was playing on my laptop in the corner of the living room, with the room enclosed but able to see the forest through windows. It is 9:30pm, and my laptop is on a desk with a lamp for added work aid. I saw something climb up the lamp (it's structured as a desk lamp, with a stretchy neck), and I thought it was a spider or something, because it was brown or deep orange in color, or one of those bloody fire ants which seem self-aware and huge :I (it was around near an inch).
But it was different, and I felt it was what it was because of its little arms.
It was probably the tiniest mantis I have ever seen, and unexpectedly because all I know of mantises are they are green.
Another awesome thing, was that my desk lamp acts like a 'cliff edge', as in the pinnacle of everything on my desk, so to see something over there is both very eye-catchingly obvious, and quite isolated in its journey from the only connection to anywhere else--the floor.
For ease of viewing, link to the imgur album in full. (Shows all pics) As a total aside, I am very happy I have tried training my hands/fingers ambidexterity. Holding a large phone and shooting that mantis is
quite difficult. It's nice to discover the limit of focus for a camera.
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