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check out this little BUGger!

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Myrockette
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check out this little BUGger!

seems like I see one of these every summer!

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Posted 7/7/06 12:29 PM
 
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Posted 7/7/06 12:29 PM
 

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Re: check out this little BUGger!

Aren't they just the coolest things?!!

Posted 7/7/06 12:33 PM
 

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praying mantis?

I think they are good luck!

Posted 7/7/06 12:33 PM
 

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Posted by -DonnaMarie-

praying mantis?

I think they are good luck!


really? I could use alot of that right nowChat Icon

Posted 7/7/06 12:35 PM
 

Myrockette
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Posted by heidla

Aren't they just the coolest things?!!


they are cool!! This guy is actually smaller than in the picture. I saw one last summer that was about 4 inches long and they actually turn their head and look at you!

Posted 7/7/06 12:37 PM
 

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very cool.Chat Icon

Posted 7/7/06 12:40 PM
 

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NICE! I usually get them too. I haven't seen any yet this year, but I think they are the coolest things. DH is scared to death of them though.Chat Icon

Posted 7/7/06 12:54 PM
 

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LOVE those!! Very cool bug!! Chat Icon

Posted 7/7/06 12:54 PM
 

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Dh found one last fall and brought it home. Turns out she was pregnant and laid the sac in the apartment. You better bet I got that thing out fast. She and her unborn found a new home in a science classroom, but she made a crazy pet for the week we had her. Crazy eating habits, that's for sure!Chat Icon

Posted 7/7/06 1:03 PM
 

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Posted 7/7/06 2:06 PM
 

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Posted by MissJones

Dh found one last fall and brought it home. Turns out she was pregnant and laid the sac in the apartment. You better bet I got that thing out fast. She and her unborn found a new home in a science classroom, but she made a crazy pet for the week we had her. Crazy eating habits, that's for sure!Chat Icon



Thats nuts! I remember something about being fined if you killed one. It's prob a urban myth but I think they were low in #'s around here years ago.

Posted 7/7/06 2:31 PM
 

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Ya actually I think its true........if you are caught killing one, you get a ticket.

I would never kill one of them anyway........they're too slow and cool looking to kill LOL

Posted 7/7/06 2:57 PM
 

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Such good luck!! I had one on my front door last summer. It was about 8 inches long and yes, it was looking at me! Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 7/7/06 4:18 PM
 

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Posted by tray831


Ya actually I think its true........if you are caught killing one, you get a ticket.

I would never kill one of them anyway........they're too slow and cool looking to kill LOL



It is actually an Urban Legend:

Origins: The belief that it is illegal to kill a praying mantis (a crime carrying a $50 fine as a punishment) has been floating around since the 1950s, and we have no idea where this bit of insectoid legal apocrypha came from. There is not (and never has been) any federal or state law proscribing the killing of praying mantises. They're certainly useful insects that are best left alone since they eat a lot of other bugs we consider pests, but they're hardly an endangered species. (If they were endangered, killing them would carry a fine far heftier than $50.) Maybe because they're considered beneficial insects and have such an unusual posture (they're prayin', fer gosh sake!) people literally thought it a crime to kill them.

Posted 7/7/06 5:11 PM
 
 

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