A Pleasant Surprise
While out in the yard today I was debating on what to photography before my work day starts. After assessing my options between the vegetables, hummingbirds or flowers, I decided on the Indigo plant.
The striking dark color of the berries contrasting with the dying leaves and green background I thought it would make a great muse for a few minutes.
Then i saw my fisfirst Praying Mantis abs as i moved areound i see 3 more. There were 4 Praying Mantis on the Indigo plant. I have never seen more then one at a time. It is usually one or maybe, if I am lucky, 2 in a season. This was a pleasant and well need surprise.
The fourth picture was too blurry to post.
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Posted on September 4, 2019, in Animals and Insects, Photography and tagged berries, bugs, Indigo plant, insects, photography, Praying Mantis, Wordless Wednesday. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
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Lucky you. The mantises are beautifully purple like the plant. Our praying mantises are either green or brown.
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I believe these are the first ones that I have seen this color. The green ones are common here. I now need to find a stick insect.
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The waking sticks we have like sage brush.
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Great photos … are those eatable berries?
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No it is not. From what I read all parts of it are poisonous the berries not as much as the stems and root but still poisonous. The most common name for the plant is pokeweed.
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I would never make it stranded in the woods… I know very little about plants.
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Neither would i.
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Indigo? How interesting. My family ran indigo plantations in India for two centuries before WWI. I’d never actually seen the plant. 🙂
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I refer to them as indigo but it is really a Pokeweed plant (thanks to Google). I call it an indigo plant because my mother has always called them that.
Your family had done a lot of very interesting things.
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Yes, indigo looks like a flower. Interesting that your mother should called it that.
My family? I think they were Gypsies. 😉
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How lucky to see so many at one time. What a great post. I just had an encounter with a pregnant praying mantis. https://noelliesplace.com/2019/09/18/pregnant-praying-mantis/
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That is so neat to see a pregnant praying mantis. I have not seen one yet.
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