Marking on a mantis

[Gretchen]

Hi friends, it's been a while since I posted.

A friend recently took a picture of a mantis in her garden, and she didn't notice it while taking the picture, but later on, she noticed a number "2" on it. She did not retouch this photo in any way.

Makes me wonder...are mantids tracked or something? Maybe it's just an anomaly, but it's so strange!

 

[Mime454]

It looks retouched, but I'll trust your friend. I wonder who's tracking them?

 

[Gretchen]

As someone who likes to photoshop, I would believe it to be retouched too, but my friend can't even put her name on her pics. It showed in another photo she took too.

I did tell her to keep an eye out for number 1!

 

[aNisip]

i remember releasing a mantis with a numbr two on it! it finally made it all the way up there! (just kidding! :clown: ) ...this is weird, i dont want to believe it because it looks sooo fake, but i wanna take your word on it... im still skeptical tho...

 

[Gretchen]

I completely agree that it looks faked, (I'm almost tempted to put my mantis pics in photoshop and number them just for fun, lol) but I want to believe her too. Anyway, if anyone has ever heard of mantids being tracked, let me know!

 

[Aeshnidae]

The bottom of the 2 is parallel to the picture.

 

[Paradoxica]

Also the 2 looks like it is on a flat surface!?

 

[Gretchen]

I know, it looks so fake. I did bring it in to PS to experiment. The baseline of the 2 matched perfectly to the baseline of the 2 I placed next to it. Different font but it lined up perfect... maybe her camera has decided to put little bits of metadata on her photos, lol.

I give up!

 

[Rick]

I don't think that is real. But these are. :stuart:

 

[hibiscusmile]

Yea, I cant believe it either, but one never knows! aliens.......

 

[Gretchen]

If they were really aliens, wouldn't they have crop circle designs?

 

[Ruaumoko]

Ricks looks just as real ;-)

 

[agent A]

that's not a number 2!! that's an upside down 7 with a curly bottom

 

[Ntsees]

The number 2 should have curved along with the roundness of the thorax. If the thorax was flat, then I would see a possibility.

 

[Gretchen]

Alright... is it possible that there's a scratch on the thorax or something that by coincidence, looks like a 2?

I don't know this friend personally, but really, she doesn't strike me as one to make stuff up, in all honesty.

 

[brancsikia339]

It doesn't look like it's real. i want to believe but i'm skeptical

I don't think that is real. But these are. :stuart:

You number your mantids? lol :stuart:

 

[agent A]

It doesn't look like it's real. i want to believe but i'm skeptical

You number your mantids? lol :stuart:

oh god i hope he didnt write on my californica

 

[brancsikia339]

oh god i hope he didnt write on my californica

lol he prob didn't

 

[CashPants]

The facts that the bottom of the 2 is level with the bottom of the frame when the mantis is not, the thorax is angled away from the lens and the 2 is not, and that the thorax is a curved surface but the 2 is not obeying that curve all point to an altered image.

Sorry, but unless she has more photos of the same thing I don't believe it :/