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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Kerry on March 10, 2007, 01:18:27 am --- I gently took him off my shoulder and took him outside. Yeah, I don't mind praying mantises. They're cool!
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Good for you Kerry! :)
Way to go!!! This is the kind of anecdote I love to hear! A happy ending for both the person and the animal!
The Praying Mantises around here are very friendly and gentle. It almost seems as if they actually like humans and enjoy being around us. It's a shame when people try to kill them. They are very weird looking, but they are completely harmless; the gentle giants of the insect world. :D
Kerry:
Yes, they are very sweet, gentle creatures. They do, however, have very exotic sex lives. The female praying mantis eats her mate, after he has finished having sex with her! Ouch! Sounds, to me, like a very convincing reason for being gay, if you happen to be a male praying mantis!
delalluvia:
Praying Mantises 8)
ednbarby:
A praying mantis got inside our house by the lake once. Scared the bejesus out of me at first because it was just so BIG. (Spiders don't bother me, but BIG bugs do.) Still I was fascinated by it. I swear it looked at me like I was someone it knew. I wanted to catch it and release it back outside, but didn't know how to other than to pick it up. And I didn't want to do that. So I called my father in, and like Kerry, he gently picked it up and set it outside near some shrubs, well away from the door.
In New York state back then, I believe there was something like a $500 fine for killing one. But why anyone (who isn't a sick bastard) would want to kill one, I don't know. They look like little E.T.'s.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 10, 2007, 09:48:55 am ---A praying mantis got inside our house by the lake once. Scared the bejesus out of me at first because it was just so BIG. (Spiders don't bother me, but BIG bugs do.) Still I was fascinated by it. I swear it looked at me like I was someone it knew. I wanted to catch it and release it back outside, but didn't know how to other than to pick it up. And I didn't want to do that. So I called my father in, and like Kerry, he gently picked it up and set it outside near some shrubs, well away from the door.
In New York state back then, I believe there was something like a $500 fine for killing one. But why anyone (who isn't a sick bastard) would want to kill one, I don't know. They look like little E.T.'s.
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You are quite right, Barb. They do, indeed, look just like cute lil green ETs! :laugh:
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