Females of Spider-hunting Wasps run about the ground flicking and jerking their wings.
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They provision their nests with one paralyzed spider usually many times larger than themselves and which they drag along the ground to get it there..
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This has to be the tiniest mantis I have ever seen, only about 3mm in length.
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When they are small like this they will moult many times before their proper colors show so it is veery difficult to tell what it will be. Judging from this, I am going to hazzard a guess and say that it belongs to the
Hymenopodidae family of Flower mantids.
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