Camouflaging predators in garden

in #hive-1277883 years ago

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There is a sculpture in the yard of a Belgian castle I visited some years ago, representing a beautiful woman, riding a praying mantis.
So far so good.
But beneath the mantis's huge body, there was the figure of a man. With a bitten head.

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Now you will say that this is a symbolic sculpture, it represents the games of the subconscious, there is nothing real in it. It's just art.

But still.

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And now you'll probably say that my pictures are too similar, don't differ much from each other.

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Then I would ask you how could you take much different pictures of this huge exemplar, encountering it in the middle of the night in front of your house? 🙃 I was really afraid to get close to it or to make too many and jerky movements around it.

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This year I had the opportunity to observe many mantises up close (as well as many camouflage insects, as is the case here, because this year I saw many green mantises hiding in green bushes, as well as brown ones hiding in fallen withered leaves of autumn trees).

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I saw many mantises in the garden - during the day and, as in this case - at night. Including one I found on a footpath on the seashore, just run over by a bicycle. I felt sorry for it. But as I was sorry, so suddenly it rose from the ground and began to move.

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And as much as I'm sorry, I can't get rid of that feeling, that memory of that sculpture...😄

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What is your attitude to these animals?


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Hive.jpgSoul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.