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Nature outside my door. Just took this about twenty minutes ago.

Mantids are one of my favorite types of insects, if only for how rare they are. At least, I've only seen three in my quarter century of life.
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
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Keep it away from your penis.
>> Anonymous
>>144510
My penis looks nothing like a withered tree branch, luckily. Also, the mantis is upside down on the eaves of the house, which makes it easy to take a picture...and very hard to reach with my penis.
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Fine, don't come crying to us when you have a praying mantis lacerating your wang.
>> Anonymous
>>144518
Tiny mantis is tiny.
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>> Anonymous
>>144520
Now that's just ludicrous. Clearly, that's a humongous, oversized cup.
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>> Anonymous
>>144518
That's no wang...
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>>144528
It's a space station.
>> Anonymous
You've only seen three mantids ever? Wow, I see them all the time here.
>> Anonymous
I'll show you my wu-tang style!
>> Puddin
I've only seen about two to three in my lifetime as well.. Funny, I work at a grocery store and an old lady bought some flowers. A mantis was sitting on them, so I scooped him up and let him go outside my house. They are pretty kick arse.
>> Anonymous
I love how half the Yutube videos of them are 'mantis attacks the camera lens and people freak out'.
>> Core !JD2r9bRTlg
Yeah, Mantis are pretty cool. I used to keep one in an overly large enclosure.. pet insect?
Anyways, after it molted once I decided to just let it go. *was having difficulty obtaining food for it*

But like most of the other posters here, I have only seen a few myself. Maybe 10.. irl. They have pretty good camouflage.

One particular evening I came across a large large brown mantis in my dads garage,(I was 8 years old at the time I believe) I'm talking bigger than my hand. And I was poking at it and the thing like lunged at my hand and locked on.

...O man, bout scared the shit outta me..
>> Anonymous
Man, used to have 5 or 6 in my frontyard. I remember trapping them in a cage and then putting dragonflies in to watch them eat it.
>> Anonymous
ive seen so many of these latley. as a matter of fact, my friends and i cought one tonight, put it in a jar, and blew smoke in it while we were smoking weed.

it was awesome.
>> Anonymous
Dear OP, give the mantis to me, I need it for my zoology project.
>> Anonymous
I had a pair of mantids of about>>144523size creep into my room when I was twelve years old... I'm somewhat phobic about most non-marine arthropods in general, so mantids are like my worst nightmare. When the fuckers grabbed onto my jeans, I about broke my legs trying to smash them.