Do you have wild hogs there?  I got treed by one...(who can spell tree-ed?)  meaning I went up a tree higher and faster than I expected.  I was a kid. My dad came by and since we were looking for squirrels, asked something about those..he pretty well knew a wild boar had got me where I was.

Maybe those are there, too.  They would be real irritated by the turkey size mosquitoes and find you a good way to take out the frustration.  Get good pics but stay healthy, friend!

Oh, the mantis is not on the lens, it is standing on the tree branch in the water, some feet away.