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<blockquote data-quote="Marilynne" data-source="post: 743392" data-attributes="member: 10234"><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><strong>From:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1D2228"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">David G. Cook</span></span><span style="color: #1D2228">[FONT=&quot]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Wildlife Biologist/Invertebrate Conservation Coordinator</span>[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #1D2228">[FONT=&quot]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Wildlife Diversity Conservation Section</span>[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #1D2228">[FONT=&quot]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Division of Habitat and Species Conservation</span>[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #1D2228">[FONT=&quot]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission</span>[/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #1D2228"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">This photo is of a praying mantis, not a walking stick, although the resemblance is uncanny! Praying mantids have raptorial (grabbing) front legs to help them secure and eat animal prey, whereas walking sticks don’t (and eat vegetation). The mantid in your photo looks like a grass-like mantid (AKA American grass mantid), <em>Thesprotia graminis</em>, known from the southeastern US. Here’s a good article about this species (</span></span><a href="https://u8387778.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=6HtRfOYLt5fXvpttM-2FU1Hd62D83U0k3MDOWtQva-2FlhLiq8Lj2Rheb5MbYjMPvZ2Jhj2ELpQyqULD-2FGsM9k0UWQ-3D-3DP9Y3_yT0tkPgzwFvHCnL-2BawXj7wNu5t0srG7KEoiGx9YT572Qx9H8ksEaEn-2FerZv7fJcsrbDrNj1q2bNdxKbaZQyb9KZH0-2BQzw3-2FOsOdXvFNte0Qq-2FvrLtMJDsqBXONHMwnfNzwzzPVRIY48TMCXMaFvIKShldVJpwzj9Lgt1G4LHWLYCbgseXrXRJkOSjV7SYv-2B86N9tYCO3Q23ccMtUT3PqWX-2FolyOw-2FcpY2anUV-2BYgzY3RMFJB67zOOQZjxwXK-2BVZW9yut1HWUflQX3Wlu4Exv8oH-2BubmEurP0Z1z6WV55Y5BHbAgonJQyqyJPMVyjBEe46jII7OxnDBmQbfyEYjb-2FygtP6h4nWOjRyW7crGMwMWChvp1xdB22tVVW0TnQVf4F" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563C1"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/IN/IN123500.pdf</span></span></a><span style="color: #1D2228"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">), plus additional photos (</span></span><a href="https://u8387778.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=6HtRfOYLt5fXvpttM-2FU1Hdbn6eqV2P6UF4uWGs6kbRZQsiFf-2BI2oRdSEAaWR3Q7hlzNV_yT0tkPgzwFvHCnL-2BawXj7wNu5t0srG7KEoiGx9YT572Qx9H8ksEaEn-2FerZv7fJcsrbDrNj1q2bNdxKbaZQyb9KZH0-2BQzw3-2FOsOdXvFNte0Qq-2FvrLtMJDsqBXONHMwnfNzwzzPVRIY48TMCXMaFvIKShldVJpwzj9Lgt1G4LHWLYCbgseXrXRJkOSjV7SYv-2B86N9tYCO3Q23ccMtUT3PqWQjtra2q6cXSCJ1gsrWnGi0ryzlMSBBL7-2F7GJcwlKlZwD3I5MP5df9OWGztovRLttMCCDIQrBiq-2F-2B26ifLOa-2BYgYbZgwVTcNzQO514sJLYtwg2c4MuffaqQ7NSZzsyuRa-2FqZg-2BzQCRLjSxnMPEMvgQDirn3XpYVpOoxKKDUtd1Wc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563C1"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">https://bugguide.net/node/view/4823</span></span></a><span style="color: #1D2228"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">). </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marilynne, post: 743392, member: 10234"] [COLOR=#800080][FONT=comic sans ms][B]From:[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1D2228][FONT=Calibri]David G. Cook[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#1D2228][FONT="][FONT=Calibri]Wildlife Biologist/Invertebrate Conservation Coordinator[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1D2228][FONT="][FONT=Calibri]Wildlife Diversity Conservation Section[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1D2228][FONT="][FONT=Calibri]Division of Habitat and Species Conservation[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1D2228][FONT="][FONT=Calibri]Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1D2228][FONT=Calibri]This photo is of a praying mantis, not a walking stick, although the resemblance is uncanny! Praying mantids have raptorial (grabbing) front legs to help them secure and eat animal prey, whereas walking sticks don’t (and eat vegetation). The mantid in your photo looks like a grass-like mantid (AKA American grass mantid), [I]Thesprotia graminis[/I], known from the southeastern US. Here’s a good article about this species ([/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://u8387778.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=6HtRfOYLt5fXvpttM-2FU1Hd62D83U0k3MDOWtQva-2FlhLiq8Lj2Rheb5MbYjMPvZ2Jhj2ELpQyqULD-2FGsM9k0UWQ-3D-3DP9Y3_yT0tkPgzwFvHCnL-2BawXj7wNu5t0srG7KEoiGx9YT572Qx9H8ksEaEn-2FerZv7fJcsrbDrNj1q2bNdxKbaZQyb9KZH0-2BQzw3-2FOsOdXvFNte0Qq-2FvrLtMJDsqBXONHMwnfNzwzzPVRIY48TMCXMaFvIKShldVJpwzj9Lgt1G4LHWLYCbgseXrXRJkOSjV7SYv-2B86N9tYCO3Q23ccMtUT3PqWX-2FolyOw-2FcpY2anUV-2BYgzY3RMFJB67zOOQZjxwXK-2BVZW9yut1HWUflQX3Wlu4Exv8oH-2BubmEurP0Z1z6WV55Y5BHbAgonJQyqyJPMVyjBEe46jII7OxnDBmQbfyEYjb-2FygtP6h4nWOjRyW7crGMwMWChvp1xdB22tVVW0TnQVf4F"][COLOR=#0563C1][FONT=Calibri]https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/IN/IN123500.pdf[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#1D2228][FONT=Calibri]), plus additional photos ([/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://u8387778.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=6HtRfOYLt5fXvpttM-2FU1Hdbn6eqV2P6UF4uWGs6kbRZQsiFf-2BI2oRdSEAaWR3Q7hlzNV_yT0tkPgzwFvHCnL-2BawXj7wNu5t0srG7KEoiGx9YT572Qx9H8ksEaEn-2FerZv7fJcsrbDrNj1q2bNdxKbaZQyb9KZH0-2BQzw3-2FOsOdXvFNte0Qq-2FvrLtMJDsqBXONHMwnfNzwzzPVRIY48TMCXMaFvIKShldVJpwzj9Lgt1G4LHWLYCbgseXrXRJkOSjV7SYv-2B86N9tYCO3Q23ccMtUT3PqWQjtra2q6cXSCJ1gsrWnGi0ryzlMSBBL7-2F7GJcwlKlZwD3I5MP5df9OWGztovRLttMCCDIQrBiq-2F-2B26ifLOa-2BYgYbZgwVTcNzQO514sJLYtwg2c4MuffaqQ7NSZzsyuRa-2FqZg-2BzQCRLjSxnMPEMvgQDirn3XpYVpOoxKKDUtd1Wc"][COLOR=#0563C1][FONT=Calibri]https://bugguide.net/node/view/4823[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#1D2228][FONT=Calibri]). [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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