The feel of a praying mantis bite.
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205637)
Walnut Creek, California
October 5, 2018 10:26am CST
Yesterday, I heard a squirrel and a crow having a loud argument out near my balcony. After about five minutes, I went outside to investigate.
The crow was a few trees over, but the squirrel was in my redwood tree, not five feet from me. He looked at me and did not seem afraid, so I went inside to get my camera. It was a great "cute squirrel" photo op.
But when I came back, he was gone. I put some seed out for him, and only then noticed they praying mantis, watching the whole affair. I was bummed that I had missed the squirrel shot, so I decided "what the heck."
I put my hand in front of the mantis, and poked hit butt, seeing if he'd bite me or climb aboard. He did the latter, and I put him on one of my succulent plants, where he'd be less visible to predators.
He didn't get into an aggressive position or make any attempt to bite me, so I guess I learned that praying mantises aren't THAT mean.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
5 Oct 18
That may have been why the squirrel and crow were making such a ruckus. They were warning you of a praying mantis. 
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@Kasjnak (4492)
• Romania
5 Oct 18
I wonder what all that fuss was about. Maybe the crow and the squirrel were trying to get her attention. And the mantis was like: "Would you let me pray?".
A mantis is never mean, it does what it has to do, even if that means beheading her partner and eating him 
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.@TheHorse (205637)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Oct 18
@Kasjnak I dated a black widow spider briefly, but it did not work out. She was less of a "moving target" than some women, as she came out to see me every evening at sunset, but the presence of her former husbands' carcasses, dangling lifelessly in the evening breeze, was a bit of a turn off.
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@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
6 Oct 18
You did get a slap after you poke his butt?
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@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
7 Oct 18
@TheHorse ahh those slaps are true??? I thought it is just a Key and Peele joke.
by the way, you did not slap his butt you poke it.
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@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
7 Oct 18
@TheHorse gossssh this is going to be a long search I will try to find it in youtube. wait up
@FourWalls (62096)
• United States
5 Oct 18
It's probably the females that bite. If the males could bite back they'd keep their heads. 
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
14 Oct 18
I have never seen a really big one, and I did not know they would bite, except the females will bit the head off a male after breeding, I am told.
