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Preying Mantis by the Pond

Posted by Blue Stritzler Russell,
North Country explorer from Cambridge, Vermont
September 10, 2015 —

I was at the pond on the south side of the St. Lawrence campus looking for frogs. I didn't see any, though I think I heard one or two slip into the water. I saw this preying mantis hanging out on a cattail about a foot from the water's edge.