Friday, September 9, 2016

Praying Mantis

This afternoon, to distract Daisy from asking me to come outside and be with her and do stuff in the yard, a praying mantis was on my front porch and caught Daisy's attention.  She wanted to sniff it but the praying mantis wasn't too keen on that.  Daisy eventually got around it lightly batting it before losing interest in it once I came outside.  The praying mantis walked off to live another day.

The praying mantis climbed up my bicycle tire in order to get away from Daisy trying to sniff it.

The bicycle frame was too smooth for it to climb any higher.

Daisy lightly patted the praying mantis and knocked it back to the ground.

Here is a 2 minute 31 second video of Daisy and the praying mantis: https://youtu.be/J3Ji08uxdTQ


1 comment:

BLD in MT said...

Cool find--for both of you. Our cats love stalking bugs. I can only imagine if they found one this large and new-to-them.