MYN / Gil Wizen / Stick-mimic mantis (Empusa fasciata) adult male, Netanya, Central Coastal Plain, Israel Meetyourneighbours.net project

Silvia Reiche / Praying Mantis (Empusa pennata), Luberon Valley, France

Adrian Davies / Conehead mantis (Empusa pennata), Provence, France, May.

Stephen Dalton / Praying mantis (Empusa fasciata) male, Corfu, Greece, May.

Stephen Dalton / Praying mantis (Empusa fasciata) female, Corfu, Greece, May.

MYN / Emanuele Biggi / Conehead mantis (Empusa pennata) nymph, Lerma, Italy, October. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Emanuele Biggi / Conehead mantis (Empusa pennata) nymph, Lerma, Italy, October. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Emanuele Biggi / Conehead mantis (Empusa pennata) nymph, Lerma, Italy, October. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Paul Harcourt Davies / Crested / Conehead / Praying Mantis (Empusa pennata) portrait on wooddland vegetation, Orvieto, Tuscany, Italy, Europe.

Wild Wonders of Europe / della Ferrera / Cone head mantis (Empusa fasciata) on Musk thistle (Carduus nutans macrocephalus) Hutovo Blato Nature Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / della Ferrera / Cone head mantis (Empusa fasciata) pair mating on flowering (Tordylium sp) Hutovo Blato Nature Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2009

Albert Lleal / Praying Mantis (Empusa sp), eating another mantis, Spain