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Praying mantis tucked beneath a mushroom cap on the forest floor
April 27, 2026 | Hidden Hunter
Beneath mushrooms in Bulgaria’s Sredna Gora mountains, a praying mantis stretches her forelegs, spined limbs used to catch and hold prey. Photographer Georgi Georgiev, a trained ecologist, has observed these ambush predators hunt creatures as large as a lizard, but also pause to carefully clean their forelegs and antennae. “The smaller they are, the more hidden and interesting their world is to me,” he says, a perspective he shared in a 2024 National Geographic story exploring the extraordinary lives of ordinary bugs.
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