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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Oct 20
there are certain times of the year when praying mantises visit me, but I've never charted when those times are. I can get very close to them (a few inches) and they won't move. They'll just watch me with their swivelly heads.
If...
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
16 Sep 20
Was out snapping photos of the bluebirds and saw this praying mantis hanging out on the hummingbird feeder.
Try to sneak up on a praying mantis, and you may be surprised when it looks over its shoulder at you. No other insect can...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Oct 17
My young friend's sharp eyes caught an unexpected visitor in the grass the other day. We both found it strange that the mantis had chosen to be a leaf, rather then the grass. She was there for a couple of days, and we were always...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Sep 17
At first I thought it was my yearly praying mantis. It just sits there on the wall, like the mantis. When I saw how fat it is, I thought it was a pregnant female. But when I talked to it, I noticed its head did not swivel, and...
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Aug 17
Mom gave me a Nikon EM 35mm camera in 1981 and boy did I go bonkers taking pictures. I became a menace and then when no one wanted me to photograph them I gave up trying to shoot people.
This shot was taken in the late 1980s, I...
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Jul 16
Yesterday as the kids I babysit leave my house I pointed out a praying mantis sitting on my front door. My husband quickly got out a little fish tank we have and put her in it for a few seconds for the kids to look at her. This...
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shaunckennedy
@shaunckennedy (55)
• United States
17 Jan 10
I teach a combination of Shaolin and Praying Mantis Kung Fu in St. Helens Oregon. I'm trying to find out what people look for in a Kung Fu school, in particular what people look for when looking to sign up their kids.
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