Why, oh, why do praying mantis’ have to find their way into may house? Did you know they fly? Yes, they fly around and around and around wondering, I’m sure, how in the world it made such a wrong turn into my house.
These are the kind of things that happen when you have a garden 5 feet from your back door, I suppose. Can you picture 5 kids screaming trying to pounce on it while it flies wildly around and around while dive bombing the lamp, me screaming and running for cover and my husband loudly encouraging the kids to catch it.
I think the little guy was finally glad to be caught because he definitely was finding it difficult to locate his point of entrance. I know that I’m glad he’s caught so I don’t have to worry about having a lost praying mantis searching for his way out in my room tonight.
Do y’all have praying mantis’ flying around in your houses or am I the only lucky one that the Lord chooses to send bugs (and really big wolf spiders and lizards rescued from the cat, and hatching tomato hornworm caterpillars, in my house, might I add) to entertain my boys with?
You are lucky that you have a Mantis in your garden. I thought you all would like some trivia about this little guy.
Mantis’ are:
1. Meat eaters..they will eat anything they can get and hold as prey.
They have even been known to attack hummingbirds if they are fast enough.
2. Their eyes are sensitive to movement up 60 feet away.
3. They are the only insect that move their head 180 degrees from side to side.
4. They shed their outer body as they grow.
5. They are on the average 6 inches in length when fully grown.
6. They are masters at camaflouge, and will like a stick or limb changing
their color to adapt to their surroundings.
7. They will eat up to 10 times their weight in a single day.
8. There are over 1,800 species of mantis in the world.
9. Mantis are beneficial to your garden. Some farmers buy egg cases to put out in their fields.
10. Each egg case have around 400 eggs in them.
So, if any of you see this little guy in your garden, pay him homage because he is there to help out.
I wish I had a few af them around my place…Farmer Darrell
Wow! I didn’t know they could fly! We have a few in our garden and my kids just love trying to find them. We’ve never had any in the house fortunately though. We have had the wolf spiders, yuck!
I came upon this page while trying to identify what exactly this huge grasshopper looking thing was that was thwapping itself against the light on the porch. Of course I was nervous of him and his erratic flying and did not exactly want this guy in my hair. I got a good look at him while he rested on a table nearby giving himself a little bath..SO CUTE… He was about an inch and a half long brown with some thin black striping along the wings. This guy is definitely a mantis of some kind. Maybe a very young one or a female. I do not know too much about them but your photo looks a lot like my guy.
Someone who commented said they can attack hummingbirds. I can believe this cause in flight, this mantis looks about the size of one…and apparently this is a very small mantis.
Lovely photo by the way =)
~Hello~
“Farmer Darrell”~ I am impressed not only with your knowledge,
but your patience in writing out this information for
everyone to share and become more educated about God’s creatures!
~Aunt “B.”~
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what is the name of the mantis in the picture above
I remember them in Weschester, N.Y. about 50 years ago. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. I haven’t seen one in many years.
I would be willing to take about 2 to 5 Babies or Adults off of your hands! I live in Tempe and need at least a hand full to eat and take care of my Bug problem!!
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