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[chaosvizier]

OMGWTFMANTISPWNED!!!

Thanks to the_5th_element, even though the story squicked her out completely.

Comments

[deinemuse]

That is like me on a bad day. Poor little humming bird though.

[chaosvizier]

True, he did completely maul the hummingbird. And they are cute in a weird way. But still! He speared it! How awesome is that?

I want a pet mantis now. I'll train it to kill puppies. And I'll call it Sully.

[deinemuse]

Jeebus!

[ladylyonesse]

Now THAT is some seriously scary shit -- my dad used to try and coax us into holding mantis (what IS the plural of Mantis? Mantii? Mantisis? Mantises? Mantisees?) when they showed up every year, and every year I chickened RIGHT the fuck out.

Now I can send him this article and say, SEE!!! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED YOUR ONLY DAUGHTER, DAMN YOU!!

~pantpantpant~

Your questions are coming, I am not ignoring you, I am just a total loser at keeping up with my LJ memes. :)

Re: Jeebus!

[chaosvizier]

We'll call them mantes. And I always thought they were cool. They just got about 150% cooler with that story.

Re: Jeebus!

[the_5th_element]

This is exactly what I'm afraid of now. ::shudder::

[chaosvizier]

Yeah. Those hummingbirds think they're all that, all badass with that hovering skill and high wing speed. How tough are you now, with a mantis leg STABBING YOU IN THE HEART? Yeah, didn't think so...

[miss_katelynne]

Wow! That is fucking cool!!! Insects, of all kinds, are just amazing.

[chaosvizier]

They are, really. I think a praying mantis is one of the few "armed and dangerous" bugs that I'll willingly carry. I found one in a mall a few months back- somehow it got onto one of the trees they had in the open area- and I carried it outside to safety. Go mantis! Go and hunt other bugs in that bloodthirsty fashion of yours!

[miss_katelynne]

I used to work in an entomology lab, but I didn't get to work with anything quite as cool as the mantis. I worked with little yuccasella moths. They're not quite as blood thirsty and they don't have long forearms with spikes on them.

[the_5th_element]

See, BLOODTHIRSTY, is the operative word here. BLOODTHIRSTY. That is all.

[lovellama]

Oh man! Ouch.

I brought a mantis egg sack in my office one day to save it from a shrub that was getting tossed, and I forgot to take it back outside. I came in a few days later to find tens (maybe hundreds, but I missed most of them) tiny tiny tan baby mantes running over my desk. I gathered as many as I could and took them outside. OMG they could have attacked en mass and killed and eaten me!! Damn, I'm brave.

But they probably recognized the sound of my voice and thought I was their mother.

[chaosvizier]

Awww, that would have been so cute. It'd be like Charlotte's Web and they could make little messages for you out of feathers and dessicated insect corpses and you'd be all sad when you realized you befriended one of the male mantises and that he died during copulation as is their fate. *sniff* Woe!

[the_5th_element]

OH
MY
GOD

I would have ran away screaming and never returned again. Now I'm going to have a horrible nightmare about hundreds of baby mantises attacking me. Great.

[fizrep]

Know what that would feel like?

::sharpens two paperclips and pokes your arms like crazy::