In an effort to terrorize my kids, Aunt Heather decided to give Wesley a praying mantis pagoda for his 4th birthday. What the heck...? Let me wikipedia this for you, "A praying mantis pagoda is an unnatural habitat for the hatching of the mantis egg". We were given an egg which we "cared for" in the pagoda and 3-6 weeks later, we have praying mantis-eses...I emphasize this cause that's a lot of mantises.
Our 3-6 week span just ended and the egg has hatched and now we have a plethora of hungry praying mantises. The idea is that you go out and catch bugs and feed them to the young mantises...yeah, right! Can you see me out there catching bugs? It was also unfortunate that there happened to be a cold front the day of the hatching and Scott, in his futile attempt to catch bugs, was only able to brave the cold for 30 seconds while he searched for unsuspecting victims. He managed to toss in one bug for the hundreds of mantises. Some lives were lost in this food foraging, luckily it was only of the insect species.
Wesley and Laina are so scared of them that they won't go near the pagoda. After much urging and reassuring that the mantises won't go lunging for their throats (which I'm still not sure if this really won't happen), they got within a respectable distance and were able to converse with them.
Here is an uncut 5:45 minute video of the young ones, both humans and insects.
Who Can It Be Now?
2 days ago
4 comments:
i think you should feed them cheetoes
or bread
You guys are one zipper failure away from total infestation! That's crazy.
And thanks for the "unedited" peek behind the curtain of Schieggdom. You're all so real to me now. I feel more connected as humans. (except for your peculiar bug fetish)
you could be cleaning though up for months then they will take over your house.
EAT YOUR FOOOOOOOOD!!! hysterical!
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