I grew basil in a pot outside a few years ago. One day I was picking a few leaves and the plant bit me. I was like WTF? I was reasonably certain herbs do not bite. This happened a couple more times until I noticed it was actually a praying mantis living in the plant, perfectly camouflaged.
Love Praying Mantis. They are my spirit bug. 2 out of 3 of my girlfriends through life have each run on to a Mantis while we walked through a parking lot.
I’d get somewhat close and say hi to it. It would then attack them. 2 of em cheated on me. My partner now is my third and the Mantis we ran into wass chill with her and let us pick it up.
One of my favorite memories and I can’t wait to relive it when my clock is punched.
If you’re talking shit about preying mantises you’re an idiot anyway, they actually are a great and organic way to control pest bugs in a garden. We buy eggs for them every spring.
You can buy mantis eggs?! That’s incredible 😭💚
Mantids are awesome lil critters. They’re majestic insects, and even the babies are adorable tiny ninjas.
This happened to us one winter. We had installed the cheapest security camera system we could buy about ten years ago and it gave out an image that was just one step better than standard definition … but the great thing was that we were able to access it remotely online with an app on our phones. We thought we had entered into the future world and we were technologically more advanced than anyone we knew. The image was terrible, the connection was spotty and it frequently dropped connection if we logged on too long and scrolled through the video notices.
Then one night while we were hours away from home, we went to review the security cam again … an alien creature was sprawled out on our lawn with dozens of legs and appendages that moved in various directions. We thought it was just dust, or sticks or grass and monitored it for several minutes until it started moving like some intelligent creature.
My wife stepped back and walked away, disgusted at what she saw … then from far away, she started laughing and said, ‘put it down’ and I stepped back … from ten feet away, we could clearly see that a spider had made a web over the camera
“Bitch you better pray.”
Ma’am, I’m going to have to ask you to calm down, ma’am.
