Monomad | The caterpillars & praying mantises I found today look so beautiful and graceful - 14 Photos

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This is my entry for the #monomad challenge curated by @monochromes today.

Good evening everyone, how are you, I hope you have a pleasant day and are in good condition wherever you are. On this sunny day, I went back around a large field but it was already overgrown with wild plants and very dense wild grass, and at that time I immediately walked around this field and then I found a species of green caterpillar or better known by another name, namely Xanthodes, and at that time I saw it crawling on one of the wild leaves.

And at that time I immediately approached it to see it up close. After seeing it up close it turned out that this species of caterpillar has a long shape with a green color motif that looks very bright, and on this occasion I immediately took several different angles of the picture and it looks very beautiful and unique because this species of caterpillar has its own characteristics, and you can see it below and hopefully you like it.

_{Xanthodes is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae. The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.....Wikipedia}

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Then I found another species of praying mantis or better known by another name, namely Brunneria borealis. From its rather large shape with a gray color that looks so unique and strange and its eyes look so attractive and graceful, and at that time I saw it crawling on one of these dry logs, and at that time I immediately took several different angles of pictures from the direction of its head and it looked very beautiful and graceful, and you can see below some portraits of this praying mantis species.

_{Brunneria borealis, common name Brunner's mantis, Brunner's stick mantis, or northern grass mantis, is a species of praying mantis native to the southern United States.....Wikipedia}

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