outside a couple of days ago i heard a cicada having a fit in the hedge row...so i thought huh i will carry my camera with me and see what the noise is all about...what follows is a humbling and intimate moment...two great giants in a battle...would the cicada have its vacation cut short by the hungry praying mantis?
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trying to shake free...the cicada would do this often...slipping from the death grip at times...
the mantis was having an extremely difficult time breaking through the cicada's armor...
hope for a big feast was slipping away...
both had very powerful legs...the mantis trying to do another lock hold...the cicada using its powerful grippers to pull away...
the mantis keeps looking for the cicada...
the cicada dangs alone...struggling to right itself...one leg missing in action...
the cicada escaped the hedge with a lightning speed exit...with more years to live and a tell to tale...
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