I am pleased to find the Forum and appreciative of the answers to what are some pretty elementary questions I've had.
I live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where my wife of forty-nine years and I retired ten years ago. I consider myself a Christian naturalist, who is in awe of the wonders of the "lilies of the valley, " broadly defined.
My hobby is nature photography: I enjoy hiking and wandering the fields and forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains and recording images of what I find. Since I am neither a botanist nor entomologist, I often don't know the identity of some of the wildflower or insect that I've come across. But I enjoy doing the research and contacting experts on the Web about a given specimen to learn something about my find.
Over the past couple of seasons I have posted images of the small wonders that I find around the Valley on my Web page
http://www.consider-the-lilies.org/
,along with some comments about what I have learned about the "lily."
So I appreciate the Mantid Forum, and the helpful responses from its members, as I have begun to realize what I didn't know about the fascinating Praying Mantis.
I live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where my wife of forty-nine years and I retired ten years ago. I consider myself a Christian naturalist, who is in awe of the wonders of the "lilies of the valley, " broadly defined.
My hobby is nature photography: I enjoy hiking and wandering the fields and forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains and recording images of what I find. Since I am neither a botanist nor entomologist, I often don't know the identity of some of the wildflower or insect that I've come across. But I enjoy doing the research and contacting experts on the Web about a given specimen to learn something about my find.
Over the past couple of seasons I have posted images of the small wonders that I find around the Valley on my Web page
http://www.consider-the-lilies.org/
,along with some comments about what I have learned about the "lily."
So I appreciate the Mantid Forum, and the helpful responses from its members, as I have begun to realize what I didn't know about the fascinating Praying Mantis.
