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I always love seeing these guys pop up in my plants. I bumbled on to this character among the Serrano chile peppers this morning. :bear_thumb:

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A sign of good fortune. I brought one in a few years ago for my boys. We kept her in a nice cage for a while and fed her crickets. It's amazing watching the Mantis eat their prey. She would grab the cricket and bite it's head off. Later we let it go but in the meantime she had laid a pod in the house. One day we came out near where the cage was and there was at least a hundred tiny Mantis's.

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You do know the Praying Mantis is a touch carrier of herpes right?

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Praying Mantis are cool as all get out but I still get more excited when I find little ols' ladybugs in my garden.

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Home depot, whole foods sell eggsacks of praying mantis and ladybugs. put some in the garden and they keep reproducing

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WTF? Seriously? Any links to info on this, or did I just prove how gullible I am? :D

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I have to admit I googled "mantis herpes". The disturbing part was the amount of search results returned but, thankfully, none of them related to Praying Mantis transmitting herpes.

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That is hilarious! I have no idea where my post came from. Sorry guys...

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I guess you just like to talk out of your

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