Restaurant Rose

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The mantis is waiting on the rose for her dinner, or mate as the case may be.
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Los Alamos, NM
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Minolta 7000/28-80 zoom @ 80mm
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Fuji 160S
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negative scan/Nikon 9000ED
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In Fall the mantis' begin to ripen eggs for the following year. The females find a mate and following mating they dine on first the poor fellow's head and then the body. The rose by the way is a variety named 'David Austin.'
 

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