Author's Note: My take on this theme was to actually take a perfectly cliché subject (macro bugs) and spin it around to make it an anti-cliché...
Hopefully I succeeded...And let me explain...
I can't help but to think of Gary Larson's The Far Side when I look at this image – I prefer to think this mantis was practicing looking particularly ominous for a repeat stage performance of "Return of the Shadow Mantis" later that night - I caught the dress rehearsal :-P