Praying Mantis

Found this amazing critter while transplanting a horseradish plant. I don't imagine there is any reason it would be waiting on one plant rather than another, but that's where it was.  In fact, I didn't find it, it found me. I looked at my arm expecting to flick a leaf away and found her sitting there. Then I rushed inside to grab my camera. Luckily she was on my left arm. I took a number of shots wondering just which is the next lens I want . . . . .

Praying Mantis: Stagmomantis californica