One day in Costa Rica I was collecting jumping spiders and this juvenile praying mantis appeared on my beating sheet, jumping all over the place. I didn’t even know that praying mantises jumped! I figured, why not try photographing it jumping? It turns out that the physics of their jumping has been studied and you can read about it here.

There are more than 500 species of stingless bees world wide. They often nest in holes in trees, but this one was in a concrete wall. I did not need to use my light beam triggering system for this photo, because the entrance to the nest is busier than any airport with bees coming and going.