{"id":2263,"date":"2011-12-15T02:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T09:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2011-12-15T02:29:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T09:29:52","slug":"preying-mantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Preying&#8217; Mantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon F3, Nikon Nikkor AF Micro 60mm f\/2.8D.<\/p>\n<p>To get up close and personal with two praying mantes, I used a borrowed Nikon 60mm 2.8D Micro lens to see their sharp grasping forelegs called &#8220;raptorial legs&#8221; . To a common housefly, this view might be the last thing they&#8217;ll see before being devoured head first in these death traps. Bon appetite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2266\" title=\"praying_mantis-2\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-2.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-2-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"praying_mantis-3\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-3.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-3-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-3-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2268\" title=\"praying_mantis-4\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-4.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-4-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-4-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2269\" title=\"praying_mantis-1\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-1.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/praying_mantis-1-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon F3, Nikon Nikkor AF Micro 60mm f\/2.8D. To get up close and personal with two praying mantes, I used a borrowed Nikon 60mm 2.8D Micro lens to see their sharp grasping forelegs called &#8220;raptorial legs&#8221; . To a common housefly, this view might be the last thing they&#8217;ll see before being devoured head first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,188,189,165,245],"tags":[244,168],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-blog-posts","category-film","category-film-camera","category-film-photography","category-macro-photography","tag-nikon-af-micro-nikkor-60mm-f2-8d","tag-nikon-f3-hp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}