Stupid praying mantis!

I hate those stupid bugs!

My milkweed is growing at a tremendous rate this year and I have been blessed with some monarchs stopping by for some grub.
They reach under the leaves and lay a tiny egg in the bottom side. After a few days the egg hatches and cool looking worms pop out. I wont go through the whole process here.

Anyways, just when I get 5 or 6 good size worms, they disappear. Wth?
Then i dig around a find a fat mantis lurking in the leaves. It's eating my damn butterflies!

This has happened several years in a row so now it's search and destroy time, no mercy....

Rant over....

a reply to: Bluntone22

Oh #, Mantis jihad. Good luck.

originally posted by: Antipathy17
a reply to: Bluntone22

Oh #, Mantis jihad. Good luck.

lmao

a reply to: Bluntone22

They are state insect in Connecticut & south carolina. All my milkweeds at the pond died so my hope of ever seeing a monarch has slimmed down some.Sad.

a reply to: Bluntone22

#MantisLivesMatter

a reply to: Bluntone22

Don't harm the mantis. This is an insect business. You need to stop getting in the middle like we do in Syria.

a reply to: Bluntone22

I thought you were going to post that video of the cowardly mantis that was supposed to buttslam the black widow.

a reply to: Bluntone22
Please don't kill them, I love praying mantises. I understand your reason for hating the mantis for eating your monarchs, as you said, they are cool and rather docile insect that feed on other insects. You can let them crawl in your hand and maybe relocate them to your neighbor's garden or the park?

No to mantis jihad, yes to Mantis force migration.

a reply to: Bluntone22

My very large husband is terrified of a praying mantis. He claims that they "are NOT of this world". He claims they are only on Earth for nefarious purposes.
About a year after we got married I found a dead one on the back porch. It was about 4-5 inches long. I used super glue to attach it to the steering wheel in his truck. Looked like it was just sitting there.....waiting. Him finding that bug at around 4 am nearly made me a widow. Funniest thing I've ever seen was him falling backwards out of that truck while screaming like a little girl.

a reply to: Kentuckymama



That was a bad prank. But, funny. lol

a reply to: NarcolepticBuddha

Somewhere,a few years back there was a video of a mantis capturing a humming bird. I would not have thought that possible if I had not seen it myself.

a reply to: Kentuckymama

Nice work.Too funny.

a reply to: Bluntone22
In some states it's illegal to kill them. You might want to check laws.

I really don't like them either.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Bluntone22

#MantisLivesMatter

Tell that to the male who gets his head eaten off by the female. What all of these MLM folks SHOULD be talking about is the mantis-on-mantis crimes. If you're not, you don't really care about mantis lives.

a reply to: MaxTamesSiva


It's like the Mexican border.
Take them across and they come right back.

Check online to see if there is a mantis sanctuary city available in your area.

a reply to: SlapMonkey

Thats only after a sexual encounter.Kinda like black widow spiders.

a reply to: LookingForABetterLife



There is, it's call bootopia

Be sure to alert the MSM if your search and destroy mission inadvertently uncovers some Russians.

a reply to: underpass61

What if russians are cloning mantis ? Or what if mantis are cloning russians.