This is the incredible snapshot that appears to show an insect riding off into the sunset - on a bicycle.

I know the photographer who produced this would probably wince at the term "snapshot" for a photograph that he painstakingly crafted. Photography of things that are terrified 24/7 of the photographers mere presence is not an easy thing to do.

Moribundus · 5 months

Mantis riding a plant-bike...where is your god now ?

joshuad80 · 5 months

I have seen this on a front page no less than 4 times this week.

LeonidasTheAdequate · 5 months

this is a really great picture, which is why i just wanted to say when making this kind of post try and find a version of the image with the photographers info on it, that way the artist can get some credit for his work. The photographers page on 500px has some more of his work.

somegrass · 5 months

Where do you get sunset out of this?

dukeipod · 5 months

It was posted 5 days ago to r/motorcycles

uglyfatkid · 5 months

this needs to be made into a pixar film.

the bicycle mantis! you'll laugh while having your heart strings tugged.

Bin4ryB4ndit · 5 months

Ridiculously Photogenic Mantis

digger_ex_pat · 5 months

I heard of a spider bike, but this is ridiculous!

Nizzler · 5 months

What do you mean appears to be?

That's exactly what this is a picture of

keejee · 5 months

He's making the best of his life before some woman eats his head off.

eshinn · 5 months

BeMO is motorbike.

justonecomment · 5 months

Need to send that design to OCC would make an awesome bike; could even use the antennae as handlebars.

Highskore · 5 months

My people, they need me.

doctechnical · 5 months

It's Mantis Armstrong!

ThaiSweetChilli · 5 months

Heeheehee, it's like in One Piece: Strong World movie where Frankie makes a motorbike out of one of the strong insects.

nicxus · 5 months

A ~~bugs~~^thugs life

Deprogrammer9 · 5 months

Nature is clean & green! RIDE A BIKE. ;)

Narsil_reforged · 5 months

Third time I've seen this fella this week

icockblock · 5 months

Is that a Mantycle ?

MewSeventeen · 5 months

Why did you blatantly lie in the title?

Do you need more attention from strangers for something you didn't do?

ChowChingChow · 5 months

35 % of people cant ride a bike,

they just got shown up by a Mantis

[deleted] · 5 months

that's an insecticon

insertgerbil · 5 months

"Nice capture. Well seen. Congrats on finding the shutter button."

` Anonymous Flickr User

HouselsLife · 5 months

SO need larger pic for desktop background!

Sobek · 5 months

"an insect?" it's a fucking praying mantis, fuck!

dsieg1 · 5 months

Woah, Woah, Woah! Where's the sunset?!

giveitago · 5 months

This is an amazing comment that is going to describe why your headline is so cringe inducing.

iamriot · 5 months

Some of those custom chopper builders need to use this as a design for a bike.

Scott_Pilgrimed · 5 months

Kamen Rider Bike!

TalkingBackAgain · 5 months

"Yo, I'm outta here! Word it to your mother."

aurakitty · 5 months

Who cares about the Mantis, those fiddleheads look delicious!

Nelson1107 · 5 months

Nice REPOST from /r/motorcycles

vgarrett · 5 months

I feel like this would be a great picture for a campaign, but FOR WHAT? Nature amazes me... So gorgeous.

Shadizzy · 5 months

Reminds me of,

http://lolbot.net/pix/10908.jpg

checco715 · 5 months

this would be a great design for an environmentally friendly bike

Jasonrj · 5 months

I said I wouldn't upvote this picture anymore. Stupid thing has appeared in every reddit I'm subscribed to, and probably 2 or 3 times in /pics now as well.

perfsurf · 5 months

Terrible title. xpost from motorcycles would have been better.

2muchreddit · 5 months

I must go, my people need me

The_Third_One · 5 months

as a bicycle.

FTFY

Nobody rides a bike like that, two feet on the middle hub of the rear wheel, two feet per side on the front wheel, bending a pair of knees like a fender over the front wheel. However if there was a praying mantis bicycle shaped like this, handlebar head/antennae and all, you can bet people'd be all over it.

mynameisgoose · 5 months

I prefer the term insecticycle.

Wrym · 5 months

G'kek.

fernguts · 5 months

I wonder how many times the photographer had to place the mantis to get this shot?

l2protoss · 5 months

Anyone have a higher res version of this?

[deleted] · 5 months

I hope he puts a helmet on. He might crash and lose his job as head coach of Arkansas.

TrustingSam · 5 months

stolen from r/bicycling with around 600 times the amount of upvotes.

jmanmd · 5 months

This is epic nuff said.

zserre · 5 months

Looks more like somebody riding a crotch rocket with some ridiculous lime green leathers/bike

Imcooleronreddit · 5 months

Live strong... salute

Pzazz · 5 months

Are those fiddleheads that it's riding?!

Delicious little things, those fiddleheads.

tilleyrw · 5 months

Beautiful!

I think I'm supposed to say something ironic here, like "Kill it with fire" or something. No. It's a beautiful photo.

chikinboy · 5 months

Looks like he is sitting on a fiddlehead, yummy fiddleheads.

lonepixel · 5 months

It appears to show no such thing.

violentacrez · 5 months

Here, have a bigger version.

kennerly · 5 months

Man fiddle heads are so fucking delicious.

KushielsChosen · 5 months

That would be the most kickass design for a motorcycle. Make the antennae the handlebars (of course the insect would have to be modified a wee bit) but ... dude.

Edit: Also, how about into the wild green yonder instead of sunset. No sunset to be seen.

thrifty917 · 5 months

Are those fiddleheads? Yum.

Skittles_Kat · 5 months

looooooove it.

rbourbon · 5 months

Ferns are cool.

nitefang · 5 months

I shouldn't have looked at this while naked. It didn't feel right.

ludikrusmaximus · 5 months

murdoch blocked

brussels4breakfast · 5 months

I...I...I just don't know what's real anymore.

RenderFastocaster · 5 months

This is a Koru plant of New Zealand.

talitus · 5 months

Well it looks like a big on a bike. Not so much the rest though.

FThisNoise · 5 months

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

columbine · 5 months

Thanks for telling me it's "incredible".

MissPiranha · 5 months

Even if it is a repost, it's still pretty cool!

KyleMC · 5 months

Le Tour de Frond

Sirtet · 5 months

The mantis cycle.hmmm it has a nice 5ing to it.

SirNameless · 5 months

He's not riding a bike, he is the bike.

MrsChimpGod · 5 months

What a beautifully grandiose title for this post!

TheBarsMyDestination · 5 months

Mantacycles are noxious pests, swarming in and out of traffic and never bothering to indicate

dr0pi · 5 months

Probably reliving a moment from his past life.

PhrenicNerd · 5 months

"Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like"

Piraticalstyle · 5 months

Now I want a motorcycle shaped like a Praying Mantis!

Brick50 · 5 months

You just reminded me of my nightmare last night. I had a nightmare that a baby praying mantis was born onto my hand and began eating me. He ate all of me, and spawned more inside of me.

CinnabarPekoe · 5 months

First thought that came to mind was Franky's Zarley Davidson.

penguinrider · 5 months

Fiddlehead Fern?

tr_morrison · 5 months

This is more than a "snapshot". Stop devaluing the photographers works to that of a "snapshop".

toboggan_philosophy · 5 months

this is the post that notes that you've phrased your title like the blurb for something in Hammacher Schlemmer

GuftaGess · 5 months

It's Masked Rider!!

kienert1 · 5 months

Not all fiddleheads are edible! Some are highly carcinogenic, with or without the butter. :P

Le_Petit_Lapin · 5 months

What sunset?

bucklesnap · 5 months

BOOOOOOOOORN TO BE WIIIIIIIILD.

wearywill · 5 months

It being the front page of Internet, I sure do expect to re-see things on Reddit two weeks later on front page.

badAtheist · 5 months

Hooray! You finally found it.

planet_rob · 5 months

Not really riding off into the sunset....more just like riding to the right. Where did you get the "sunset" part? That usually shows a setting sun, with a person somewhat far away, heading straight for the setting sun.

Heavy0 · 5 months

Read 'incest' instead, wtf brain?

eetMOARcatz · 5 months

Fucking fixie-riding hipster mantises...

serious_sarcasm · 5 months

I want to ride my bicycle

wireninja · 5 months

On ya Bike!

linkseyi · 5 months

Who cares if it's a repost? I have never seen it; that alone should make the purpose of the link fulfilled.

kelbymiles · 5 months

The plant is a fiddlehead and they are incredibly tasty :-)

readitwice · 5 months

They're watching us. And learning. Be scared of Hipster Mantis on fixie

kehrol · 5 months

the "bicycle" is also one of the most delicious wild vegetables that can be found in borneo :) it's called "midin" / "bidin", essentially the young shoot of wild bracken fern.

LunaFaye · 5 months

Someone NEEDS to turn this into a custom Chopper!!!!!

MaliceRaven · 5 months

The mantis itself could be seen as decal of a mantis motorcycle

magicbash · 5 months

Looks like Wall-E.

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