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this is a Praying Mantis Startle Display Appreciation Thread. please feel free to contribute https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/science/praying-mantis-startle.html
Mediterranean mantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimatic_behaviour#/media/File:Gottesanbeterin_Abwehr.JPG
Devil's flower mantis, by Cathy Keifer https://stock.adobe.com/42858247
Stagmatoptera biocellata, by H. Maldonado
(bonus: Stagmatoptera biocellata versus crow)
Giant budwing mantis https://richardsinverts.com/category/praying-mantis/page/2/
dead leaf praying mantis, by Igor Siwanowicz https://www.photo.net/1783374#/mantis/Sort-Newest/All-Categories/All-Time/Page-1
my personal favorite https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1939.tb00055.x
unidentified green guy, by S. Karthikeyan http://www.wildwanderer.com/startling-displays/
the squad
