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Re: My little friend! [Re: Law Dog] #6616340
09/13/19 09:30 PM
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Mantises are excellent little predators. i always like seeing them. We have always had a decent population around here.

I found this one floating in the pool yesterday morning.

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We had a big thunderstorm with hail and high winds the night before. He must have gotten blown out of one of those trees along with about a million leaves.

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Re: My little friend! [Re: Law Dog] #6616363
09/13/19 10:01 PM
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Stone cold killers one of my favorite bugs. Nightmare monsters to other bugs though.


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Re: My little friend! [Re: Law Dog] #6616369
09/13/19 10:13 PM
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Those things must hump more than Stormy Daniels, we got a big crop of em this year

Re: My little friend! [Re: Law Dog] #6616412
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They are the only insect that I know of which will turn its head and look you right in the eye. I has compound eyes, but has what appears to be a single pupil deep inside of its eye. They seem to look right into your soul. LIKE AN ALIEN!

Re: My little friend! [Re: KeithC] #6616420
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Originally Posted by KeithC
Just don't marry her Jerry. Their mates lose their heads when they consummate. laugh

That's a female that will be laying an egg case soon.

I caught a praying mantis with an abdomen like that, when I was a kid. I let it hang out in my windows and catch flys. It disappeared for a few days and showed back up looking really skinny. Months later, I got home from school and my mom was yelling and vacuuming thousands of baby preying mantises, with a shop vac, from my windows.

She had laid multiple egg cases attached to the clothes in my closet.

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Reminds me of the time I put an egg case in a diorama at school as a kid. The teacher explained to me that over the weekend they had to remove it. When I got older I laughed when I realized what I'd done.


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Re: My little friend! [Re: Law Dog] #6616462
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Thirty years ago on a dove hunt we were camping on the river and built a fire. After it got really dark, we had hundreds of them run straight into the fire. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen, like a mass suicide.

Amazing insect.

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Anybody remember Zorac from Space Ghost? LOL

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Re: My little friend! [Re: Gary Benson] #6616557
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Originally Posted by Gary Benson
They actually make great pets! We used to catch them and keep them in a screened box. We would open the door to let flies in, then catch the flies and put them in the box with the praying mantis. They can snatch a fly out of the air.....then eat them while theyre kicking. When they're done they'll lick their hands to get the last bit of goodness. Cheap entertainment. 🙂

Now that would be fun...even at my age


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Re: My little friend! [Re: Law Dog] #6616644
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I watering my mom's plants and this guy showed up looking mad because he got a shower lol. Not as cool as having one on your glove Jerry

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