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den ([personal profile] den) wrote2002-04-02 12:26 pm

Raider

A preying mantis has found its way into one of my meal worm farms. It probably can't believe its luck.

I wish it well.

[identity profile] tropism.livejournal.com 2002-04-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...I bet it'll explode by Thursday.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2002-04-01 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Then the meal worms will eat it.

And thus we are all connected in the great Circle Of Life, or something.

[identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Course if the worms eat the mantis, which is full of half-digested worms... watch out for WSE (Worm Spongiform Encephalitis). ;)

[identity profile] tatterdemalion.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
ewwwwww


8-)

[identity profile] hedgegoth.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
i don't think disney will be animating this one...

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
heh heh

I'd watch it.

[identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it'll tell all the other mantids in the yard and you'll have a gang!:D Until the one who found the place has to keep eating the other members to keep the find a secret from rivals;), that is. Which color is it- green, brown, cream or mottled off black? And don't try to pick them up unless you use chopsticks or long tweezers. Those arm barbs *hurt*. I learned about them trying to pick one up in my parents yard when I was six or seven. They've got elbows, and they know how to use them!!

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the colour of grass. I thought it was a blade blown into the box until I saw the legs. This one is only 2" long. We get big brown ones here: 7" long and as mean as.

[identity profile] tropism.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, to people not living in that crazy place down under, grass is generally green. ;)

[identity profile] tropism.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, never mind. I somehow manged to read that the wrong way around...

It's too damned late for me to be up and talking to other people. %)

[identity profile] resolute.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
How nice to know other people have mealworm farms . . .

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Gotta feed the bats. And mantises, apparently.

What are your worms for?