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Simple Living
True Blue Farmgirl
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Joan
Staten Island
NY
USA
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 Posted - Sep 09 2013 : 4:00:47 PM
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So I'm in my garden picking my beans. Pick, pick, pick, go grab another branch and a Praying Mantis comes jumping out and scared the you know what out of me lol. Holy cows, it was huge, the grand daddy of them all. Where that thing was hiding I don't know. But now I can't find it lol.
A Life Without a Friend is a Life Without Sun.
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violetrose
True Blue Farmgirl
871 Posts
Ruth
Epworth
GA
USA
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Posted - Sep 09 2013 : 7:08:55 PM
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Joan, They blend in so well, I can look right at one, and not really see it. Hope you are ok !
Hugs, Ruthie
Farmgirl Sister # 1738
God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us!
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debbies journey
True Blue Farmgirl
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debbie
anchorage
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USA
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Posted - Sep 09 2013 : 11:30:15 PM
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Sep 10 2013 : 04:01:33 AM
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One Summer when I lived in Spokane and was in my early 20's we had Praying Mantis every
where. It was like a biblical plague...you opened your doors and there would be 20 or more
hanging on your screen door. The Crescent Building that I worked in down town...would have
them dead by the hundreds all over the floors in the bathrooms...they were coming in thru
the ventilation system. It was creepy...and disgusting. I like them one at a time...but
not every where you turn...and the dead ones crunching under your feet. It was Gross!
So Joan...I hope that makes you feel better about your one Mantis...it could have been worse,
like an Alfred Hitchcock Movie or The 10 Commandments! LOL
Hugs,
Peggy
Farmgirl #1326
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6194 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Sep 10 2013 : 10:16:32 PM
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I had a praying mantis recently but had to let him go, but that would be creepy to have that many around.
The one I had wasn't that big it was one of the ones they let go at the school and it found it's way into the school so I took it home but didn't have any aphids to feed it but it had the prettiest little face and a lot of charachter in it's little eyes. I loved that little guy. I let it go out side my house and hope my kitties didn't bother it.
It was a neat experience.
hugs
darlene
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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Simple Living
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
Joan
Staten Island
NY
USA
211 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2013 : 05:25:22 AM
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Eww Peggy that is horrible and funny at the same time lol
A Life Without a Friend is a Life Without Sun.
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marlee
True Blue Farmgirl
871 Posts
Marlene
DeRidder
Louisiana
871 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2013 : 4:59:21 PM
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When I was growing up on our farm we had them in the barn all the time. I haven't seen them for a long time.
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6194 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
6194 Posts |
Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 12:20:57 PM
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We had another one caught in the school again yesterday. It sure looked different than the one I had, It was a little bit bigger and more tan colored and it's face was different than the green one I had, do they change that much or is there that much a difference between the males and female.
darlene
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
919 Posts
Linda
Kansas
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Rain K
True Blue Farmgirl
150 Posts
Rain
Paonia
CO
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 4:22:18 PM
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Earlier in the summer I saw mantids hatch from an egg case for the first time...kind of creepy but totally amazing also. Today I had one the size of the state of Montana jump on my arm, so I jump and scream and drop my picking basket so now I have tomatoes rolling everywhere. I finally got my heart rate down out of the sky, picked everything, took a deep breath, and saw another GIANT one. Wow! They eat grasshoppers, so fine by me, just don't touch me!!!
However, Peggy, that is beyond weird and gross and yucky! I thought the praying mantis only stuck around where there was food, I don't know why there would be so many.
Rain
Farmgirl #3381
The Ninth Wave
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2115 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 5:32:37 PM
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I don't like them hitching a ride on my shoulder or my wheelbarrow, which they often do. Usually one of the cats takes off after them.
Connie
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6194 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 7:31:46 PM
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I probably wouldn't like them jumping on me either.
darlene
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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