Early morning self cleaning

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: Mantis nymph

An unusually friendly and photogenic mantis nymph, one of the most cooperative ones off the several tiny beauties that seemed to be all along the trail. The beauty was comfortable with the lens looming close to it and rather was more concerned about cleaning its front legs and eventually checking on the lens or the diffuser, which was pretty close to it.

EXIF:
Canon 550D
Canon 100mm macro + Raynox DCR 250
F/18
Shutterspeed 1/125
ISO 400
Handheld, External flash fired

Location: Nagla trail

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice behavior photographed. Its interesting to see how the segmented abdomen is folded upwards. Thanks for sharing.