So I was going into my shop and I noticed that my Son’s bike was in the parking area. I went to grab the handle bars and found this BIG ASS PREYING MANTIS looking at me. I thought about shooting it (just because it scared the crap out of me), but then I remembered that they do a lot of good.
Wanting to work on my photo skills and use my new $400 lens I thought I would take a couple pics of it. Every time I moved to get a different angle on him, he would spin his head to watch me (like he was planning on eating me or something).
Over the last couple days he has been hanging out on either the door of my shop or on the cigarette can by the front door. Not sure if this is a good hunting spot or not, but he sure does like it.
Cool, you refered to it as a “he” but I think thats a female. I believe the females eat the males after mating. Not only that but Im pretty sure the females are larger than the males. I think thats how it works, but Ive been wrong before.
Dictionary of useless knowledge.
Those things are little killing machines. I saw a YouTube video of some guys fighting one against a mouse. After multiple attacks to the head it finally got to the brain and killed it! I would never had thought it.
Great pic, once I caught one of these to feed to a friends Jack Dempsey fish which was about 6 inches long. He was not used to eating anything that fought back, my pal ok’d it. Pitched her in and she sank like a rock then came eye to eye with the fish who handley devoured it. Then he spit it out and she unleashed a can of whoop ass on the fish, who reallly didn’t have much of a back side to get whooped, she floated to the top and my friend grabbed it and threw it out the door he was never the same after the incident …the fish.
I guess my buddy got even he was the pastor who married me and my wife ! LOL
Some guys never forget !
