Scary grasshopper/mantis

[falconboy]

So, standing at my mums front door after knocking on it, I suddenly see this thing in front of my nose. It may be harmless, but I can you I jumped a mile and screamed like a girl. :lol:

Not sure exactly what it is, but since its green and hops I assume its a grasshopper.

Enjoy!

 

[Duke]

Praying Mantis, I'm sure someone here will elaborate on the genus/species.

 

[brycehf]

So, standing at my mums front door after knocking on it, I suddenly see this thing in front of my nose. It may be harmless, but I can you I jumped a mile and screamed like a girl. :lol:

Not sure exactly what it is, but since its green and hops I assume its a grasshopper.

Enjoy!

HAHAHAHA....Better check the undies lol. Nah just kiddin falconboy. Very funny though i LMAO when i read it.

Thanks for the laugh

 

[Eylandt]

Thats the Shirling coming out in you falconboy.. Screaming at a Mantis... *chuckles*

 

[gpoleweski]

Yeh, I've seen them around here. Pretty cool to watch walk around and if your lucky see them catch something to eat

 

[i_LoVe_AnImAlS]

praying mantis lol if only someone had a video camera falconboy

 

[Noongato]

EVer get those huge ones after it rains, and you pick them up and the buggers bite into you and clamp you with their big arm thingys. I try and get them off the footpath and come out bleeding.
Thats grattitude 4 ya.

 

[falconboy]

Thats the Shirling coming out in you falconboy.. Screaming at a Mantis... *chuckles*

It was even scarier when it turned its head and looked at me. Thank god it wasn't Mantis lunchtime. I got the pic and got the hell out of there.

 

[mysnakesau]

I thought you were a girl. Didn't expect a boy to be scared of a little preying mantis

 

[FROGGIESrCUTEo_O]

lol, nice name for the pic, greenscarything:lol:
I had one like that, his name was Carl...

 

[WombleHerp]

awww its cute i used to breed those haha
Praying mantids are awesome methinks grow some hairy bllz and harden the .. up hehehe


Natalie

 

[i_LoVe_AnImAlS]

lol, nice name for the pic, greenscarything:lol:
I had one like that, his name was Carl...

OMG i loved carl he was such a poser!!

 

[falconboy]

grow some hairy bllz and harden the .. up hehehe

They are plenty hairy thank you.

 

[Mudimans]

It was even scarier when it turned its head and looked at me. Thank god it wasn't Mantis lunchtime. I got the pic and got the hell out of there.

So true-they're all too knowing with the way they turn their heads and look at you! :shock:
Funny story though!

 

[spongebob]

Strange that in the mantis world these male /female remarks would be reversed. Often the female decapitates the male and then eats him straight after copulation....

 

[falconboy]

I'm lucky the mantis must have had a headache.

 

[Sock Puppet]

Praying Mantis are cool, my bro used to have one, fed it live crickets, it's awesome watching them stalk & kill their prey. As a kid I had an egg case in my room, mum freaked out when they hatched & I had a couple of hundred mini mantis running around haha.

No need to be such a wuss next time mate, they're harmless you can pick em up, I've never been bitten by one. It's just a praying mantis, not a funnel web spider. Phasmids are awesome!

 

[WombleHerp]

Ive been bitten, or rather, eaten alive :lol: it grabbed onto my thumb and just started chewing haha! it was hilarious.. I had an egg sac too, (many of them actually as i used to breed them) and i had HUNDREDS your not wrong there, heaps and heaps and heaps hatch out! I think its a survival thing, because something that small is bound to be preyed upon by all!


Nat x

 

[Thyla]

Strange that in the mantis world these male /female remarks would be reversed. Often the female decapitates the male and then eats him straight after copulation....

Or even during mating, and the male continues without a head (what a stallion!)

 

[kandi]

they are fantastic creatures especially to watch, i once watched a karate doco on prey mantis moves interesting and quite similar