Praying Mantis Patrol in the Vineyard

We have been seeing a lot of praying mantis in the vineyard. It's difficult to avoid seeing them because they like to hang out on our netting and we have been doing a lot of work with our netting. One day I came face to face with this:

That photo was taken on September 15, 2019 and since that time, we have been seeing many praying mantis on the netting. We wondered what was so interesting to them that they like to hang out on the netting. Then on September 23, 2019 when we did our Auxerrois harvest, we learned part of the answer.
Our friend took a video that shows the praying mantis devouring a yellow jacket!

Here is a photo of the same scene:

We really like seeing things like this that goes on in our vineyard!
More cool wild life like this one can be found under the tab labeled Vineyard Sightings.