Bookmark - Praying Mantis (Animal Series - Creepy Crawlies)

As is the case with the giant wood spiders, praying mantises are easy to capture because they are slow-moving and not easily intimidated.  These guys, however, are so much more personal because of the way they'll turn their head and appear to be staring straight at you (which may be the case).  And knowing that the females eat their mates alive during copulation makes them all the more intimidating to us.

Must have been the right season (May) because we saw loads of these during this stay in Taiwan.  Big ones, small ones, brown ones.  Very interesting, and one could hardly invent a creature more exotic and monstrous.