they make great pets! I had three, now two, but when my second is a little bigger I'll move her to a bigger house and get a third of some sortverb_to_trust wrote:I didn't know they could be pets. A few years ago I went to lunch and there was a beautiful mantis on my side mirror. I drove away thinking he would just fly off. Instead, the mantis started crawling all over my windshield. A wild ride. I managed to find a wooded area, pulled over and got him to jump on a stick. I secured him in what I felt was an appropriately mantisy shrub and drove off.Ms Harmless wrote:I lost a mantis last weekend, cried all day
I still think about that mantis sometimes.
they're not with us for very long (about a year), but while they're here, they're surprisingly full of character, intelligence, and individuality
