Otto brought his preying mantis in during our dessert course. Miss Mantis was well behaved and waited patiently for a cricket or grasshopper or small bird to munch on.
It’s the season for these elegant creatures as they head into fall ready to deposit an ootheca ( I feel a band name coming on ) that is a little egg sack tough enough to snuggle in for the winter. In the spring it will hatch and clear our garden of many pests.
She’s very pretty, Otto!
he also caught a brown one shortly after. apparently they match their environment as they sit still waiting for food.