bee and praying mantis battle on a sunflower

Here are a couple of photos taken by our neighbor. Alice grew this sunflower from a seed, and today there was a praying mantis battling a bee right on her flower. I wish we had gotten to see this, but this morning we were busy looking at the giant squid battling the whale at the Museum of Natural History. I guess we all have our own battles to fight. Current ones at home typically involve bathing suits and a potty. The sunflower is about 4 feet tall.