This young praying mantis was perched on an agave attenuata, but its tail-up pose, and the direction of the photo, give at strange appearance.
Abstract: Praying mantis
Category Archives: Abstracts
Abstracts: Fish in a tide pool
A small fish, possibly a blenny, waits in a tide pool. The movement of the water in the pool created the interesting visual effect.
Abstracts: Flowery flounders
Two flowery flounders don’t exactly stand out on a sand and rubble sea floor, but I’m sure you can spot them.
Abstracts: Spiral foliage
The leaves of what I think is philodendron goeldii spiral upward in a distinctive way.
Abstracts: Bloody hermit crab
I think this is a bloody hermit crab, but this was my only look at it. The greenish lump, from which the legs protrude, is not a shell but a lump of rock or old coral.
Abstracts: Swimming pool
An array of lane dividers, pool markings and reflections at the local swimming pool in Kapaau.
Abstracts: Yellowhead moray eel
At one of my regular snorkel spots, there’s a place where a small whitemouth eel had taken up residence. I saw it there several times, head sticking out from a hole in the rock, flashing its white mouth. Then one day it was gone, but there was clearly something else in there. It looked like another eel, but I only saw a smooth patch of skin, it was curled in there so tightly.
Recently though, I saw that the creature had turned around and, in the small opening, part of its head could be seen, revealing it to be a small yellowhead moray eel. In the photo, the eel’s eye peers out from its lair, which is surrounded by rock covered with different-colored growths.
Abstracts: Tiny stick insect
This is easily the smallest stick insect I’ve seen here. I noticed it on a window screen and it was no wider than a single square of the screen and not very long either.
Graham's Island 