Aesops97
Sep 4, 2009, 11:46 AM
Not sure this is the forum but you guys have been great in ID'ng things for me.
While outside admiring the Iron Weed you folks ID'd for me, I felt something on my arm - rubbed it and then notice it looked like a very small preying mantis. Put it under stereo microscope and it wasn't. See attached. it's 1/2 inch long between the X's. It's light green and has large reddish brown eyes popping out on either side of a long body stem with very long slender legs. It has a very long slender nose-like stem as a nose which is tucked under its body The legs are somewhat disklocated from my rubbing it initially. I tried to straighten them out but wasn't too succesful using the microscope. It's still alive moving it's legs. I put it outside on a watermelon plant. it might survive. Saw no reason to kill it.
While outside admiring the Iron Weed you folks ID'd for me, I felt something on my arm - rubbed it and then notice it looked like a very small preying mantis. Put it under stereo microscope and it wasn't. See attached. it's 1/2 inch long between the X's. It's light green and has large reddish brown eyes popping out on either side of a long body stem with very long slender legs. It has a very long slender nose-like stem as a nose which is tucked under its body The legs are somewhat disklocated from my rubbing it initially. I tried to straighten them out but wasn't too succesful using the microscope. It's still alive moving it's legs. I put it outside on a watermelon plant. it might survive. Saw no reason to kill it.