Ahhh, nature

Praying mantises are incredible bugs. They are like, the perfect hunter bug, equipped with a wide array of abilities and facilities for easily taking out many other bugs.

A friend of mine had 3 or 4 mantises as 'pets' hanging out in his kitchen for a while. It started with this one shrimpy one, then suddenly a bigger one showed up, both male. Then the shrimpy one died and the male got a little bigger. Then a female showed up. This one was HUGE, like twice the size of the male.

My friend would feed them spiders and other live bugs. It was nuts seeing a mantis take out a black widow that was about the same size as it.

Eventually, the female ate the male, and then shortly thereafter left. We haven't seen any mantises since. But perhaps eggs have been laid and more mantises will show up. Regardless, they are ****ing awesome bugs.

 

Plus they look kinda funny when you pull their arms off.

"How you gonna pray now?!!"

brad cook

 

LOL in a sadistic sorta way!

 

I never knew I could blast beer outta my nose. Good job.

 

The side of my house is covered in trumpet vine. 2 things frequent it; Preying Mantis and Hummingbirds.

Nature is cool

 

nature is strange and squishy.

 

Are you constantly serenaded with little Miles Davis standards?

brad cook

 

They are rare, but when I was like 8 years old I caught one (more like it caught me, it just flew up right into my hair, so I kept it) and kept it for a week or so. It was a very pregnant female, so I let it go eventually.

 

Ya, who could live long up there. Dreary place.

 

I used to have a trumpet vine on a trellis between two decks. Believe me there are at least two other things that frequent it: Aphids and ants. Man those are some nasty plants.

 

I was inspired by this guy:


trying to get some of this:


on a trail when I was hiking in the Rockies 3 weeks ago. He seemed to get pretty angry when I got there and he flew right at me from about 20 feet away and landed in that tree about 4 feet away from me.

 

Did you come hiking out with a few little feathers hanging out of your mouth? That's always so embarrassing.

brad cook