Florida is heaven for bug lovers. I do not love bugs. I like some of them. I like the ones I've recently found outside my house. I do not like bugs inside my house.
With the exception of the praying mantis, I do not know what these are. I tried sending a picture of the big yellow/brown moth to
What's That Bug? but my photo failed to upload. Maybe I'll try again, unless someone can comment and tell me what it is. It's about 4 inches wide across the wings. The little green moth, or is it a butterfly? on the white phal just came out of a tiny cocoon, also in the picture.
The praying mantises are, I think, mating. I call this picture "doomed" because sexual cannibalism is common with mantises. According to
Wikipedia, "The female may start feeding by biting off the male’s head (as with any prey), and if mating had begun, the male’s movements may become even more vigorous in its delivery of sperm". Yikes.
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Here's a link:
http://insects.tamu.edu/images/insects/common/images/cd-43-c-txt/cimg298.html
http://insects.tamu.edu/images/insects/common/images/cd-43-c-txt/cimg298.html