Hey everyone
Cleo here.
I did some art using one of the myths that I wrote about the other day as inspiration. I also tried to relate to typography since that was the art for big Thursday. The word is making up the dragon’s horn.
I did my 5 a day. My mum was going to give me medium level, but I told her that was too easy and it should be spicy. I got a bit muddled with my long multiplication, but after sitting down with my Mum and going over it a couple of times we worked out exactly where I was going wrong. It was a simple mistake, but it messed my whole sum up!
I did Sumdog, followed up by some Epic.
This is my picture for the photography challenge. I bet I will post a lot of mantis! A big question about my last mantis was why do the females have wings if they don’t fly. Mantis do threat displays using their wings – their wings sometimes have swirly shapes on that look like eyes. This makes them look bigger than they are and predators are confused by the eyes. I have a couple of species like that so I’ll try to show them soon.
This is Autumn. She is a Deroplatys Truncata (Deadleaf Mantis). She’s not easy to take pictures of. Her species look like dead leaves so they can hide in amongst dead leaves and catch prey. Natural prey to praying mantis are flying insects. Autumn isn’t an adult yet
I’ve also found a picture to show an adult female dead leaf mantis doing a threat display so you can see how they use their wings for that. You can see this species has black dots on their arms to look like eyes.
Now it’s time to finish the day by learning about meditation.
Bye for now!
Cleo
Hi Cleo,
The photo of Autumn is great! The extra picture you put up shows those “eyes” well. Thanks for explaining why they have wings.
Your dragon’s head picture is really clever, with the typography horn. Well done!
I am also impressed you tried a spicy challenge today, and persevered to work it out. Good attitude!
Enjoy your meditation.
Well done for challenging yourself with a spicy Math’s challenge Cleo. Well done to you (and mum!) for persevering with the long multiplication.
I love your Word Art Cleo. I like how you have used the dragon’s horn for the word – very creative. You are lucky to have such interesting pets to take photos of – I’m looking forward to seeing more photos and learning more facts about them!
The mantis facts you are sharing are great Cleo, I’m learning so much.
I’m very glad to hear you are doing spicy – skilled lady that you are! Maths is like that, small errors change your whole answer. That’s why I ramble on about showing your workings so much – helps us find small mistakes and fix them!
Love the dragon, nice use of the word art.
Great work Cleo!
I love your picture of Autumn. She really does look like a dead leaf. Is that why she’s called Autumn?
I like your artwork Cleo – did you do it on the computer? Thank you for explaining why mantis have wings when they don’t use them to fly. I was an excellent explanation with a great photo to demonstrate exactly what you mean. Brilliant work – I learned a lot.