Preying mantis

A few days ago, while we were walking home from a friend's house in the early evening, I spotted something out of the corner of my eye. It looked like a leaf, but I knew it wasn't. It was a large preying mantis sitting on the hood of a white car outside the villa! A large one too - at least 5 inches long. As we viewed him (or her), he sat like this viewing us:

Henry and Nathan loved him! Everyday they want to find him, but we haven't seen another one. There was something very smart about this one. Not your average bug. It was pretty cool, I guess, if you're into huge insects.