One of the coolest Insects ever...

[Buffalo Phil]

So I found this sweet praying mantis at work the other day right as we were closing up, so I put it in a cardboard box and took it home to take pics!

I put him on the hood of the Waggy and let him groom himself a bit last night.




He sat in a cage with some leaves and shit overnight and then this afternoon I let him walk around my backyard for a few hours.











Then Matt came over and we tried to feet it a fly, but he wouldnt have it. Maybe he wasn't hungry.

[Nick]

state insect of CT

[wannabejeep]

I was mowing a field a few weeks back that was FULL of those guys. One of em just hung out on the hood of my tractor for a solid hour. I'm sure I mowed hundreds of em hahahaha

[Buffalo Phil]

Well, was out in the yard today and came across the corpse of this guy. He never left the bush I placed him in an I assume the cold got to him.





The lifeless husk is still out there but it was cool to see how he lost all the colors in his eyes and the vivid greens on his exoskeleton had turned to brown.

[Ruepart Hoaxley]

[hippie metal]

[bucketokarma]

All I can think of is "You killed Zorak!"

[crosbike]

murderer!!!

[Pedro]

Great, you killed an endangered species. Well done, Phil.

[CumminsJeep]

Murderer...

[Buffalo Phil]

The PCP fiend kills millions of them, I let one die and I get my balls busted.

[YJCrawler19]

"Only one Spanish species, Apteromantis aptera, is listed as Lower Risk/Near Threatened. With one exception (the ground mantis Litaneutria minor in Canada, where it is rare — though it is common in the United States), North American mantises are not included among threatened or endangered species, though species in other parts of the world are under threat from habitat destruction. The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) is the state insect of Connecticut, but the General Statutes of Connecticut do not list any special protected status, as it is a non-native species from Europe and Africa.

There is a long-standing American urban legend that killing a praying mantis is illegal and subject to a fine. The origin of this myth is unknown but may have originated due to the low number of sightings of mantis and because of how beneficial they are to gardens in which they live."

[Buffalo Phil]

The origin of the myth stems from the fact that it is the CT state insect.

[YJCrawler19]

Thank you Wikipedia