I was sitting out on my balcony checking out my fish lazily swimming around in their little urn of water, when I spotted an unusual visitor lurking in the green foliage. 

At first I didn't believe that I was staring at a praying mantis, but upon a closer look, there indeed was a little green mantis hiding under a leaf. The little guy blended in pretty well with all the green leaves and I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed it were I not sitting there staring at the fish.

A mantis lurks . . .