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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Mantises Again


Another highlight of the weekend was the fact that we saw a lot of praying mantises doing their thing. We captured a good share of the life-cycle, I betcha.

A couple of weeks ago I posted this photo of one on our window...unfortunately I found this one dead out on the brick terrace last week.
However, this one was there at the same time, moving along the railing. Earlier I had seen it clinging to the house, hanging upside down; I thought the pose looked like it may have been depositing eggs, so we'll see.


Also, when we went to Anthony's 12 for lunch on Saturday, there was a small one, about 2 inches long, in the restaurant. I convinced one of the nephews to rescue it and put it outside.

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