Podomyrma adelaidae

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus spider ant.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Arthropterus Ant-Nest Beetle (Carabidae: Paussinae)

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Preying mantises are meticulously clean insects. Here, a female carolina mantis, Stagmomantis carolina, grooms a hindleg.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia
Orthodera ministralis - Australian Garden Mantis

Melbourne, Australia
Stagmomantis carolina, the carolina mantis.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
A newly hatched Stagmomantis carolina surveys the world.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
A Diabrotica spotted cucumber beetle clings to goldenrod in an early autumn prairie sunset.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Arthropterus Ant-Nest Beetle (Carabidae: Paussinae)

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Arthropterus Ant-Nest Beetle (Carabidae: Paussinae)

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Arthropterus Ant-Nest Beetle (Carabidae: Paussinae)

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
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