Date: 10/21/2011 12:39:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30051
It's like an itch I can't scatch..I have a thing about knowing WHY? Why people believe what they do. Why why why? Why does Nelly wear a bandaid on his face? Yeah that's right..I KNOW! Must find out....MUST!! Haaahaaaa!  |
Date: 10/21/2011 1:18:00 PM
From Authorid: 64365
I love Preying Mantis...down in Texas we had them all over all the time when I was growing up. It could be a collective migration of some sort to an area not threatened with inclement weather at the time they showed up in AZ. I've never been bitten by a preying mantis. And, I used to let them crawl all over me. It's the only insect allowed near my body. Not very many green irridescent June bugs, either. Something else I noticed...the cicadas didn't come out in abundance like they usually do, and those big old huge Grasshoppers seem to have dwindled down. I think I saw three of them the whole spring, summer and fall. Insect activity has become erratic, to say the least. Disappearance of honey bees, wasps, bumblebees, and hornets...not as many Mud Dobbers, haven't even seen any Oak Tree Asps, lately. I think what you experienced may have been just a fluke of nature.
Also, the preying mantis was probably trying to eat your mother rather than just bite her. I put a link to a video in your profile.  |
Date: 10/21/2011 1:40:00 PM
From Authorid: 4995
I respect praying mantasis because they eat spiders and stuff but to have a full grown one in my house would freak me the you know what out. I don't know how you lived with it. Good luck. G.  |
Date: 10/21/2011 2:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 64985
All I know is they swarm and eat and bread, maybe they are like the locusts at times, and they come in great numbers, then after they bread and lay eggs. The eggs hybernate or something...Heck just a thought, cause I sure don't know anything about them except they are ugly...Corolator  |
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Date: 10/21/2011 3:02:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30051
I know what happened to every single one of your bugs Nani! They came here! I have NEVER seen so many bugs in my life. Summer time in Payson Arizona is YUCKY!! Not only do you have swarms of every bug on the planet. You have tarantulas and scorpians. And a gaggle of abnormaly large spiders! Tarantulas belong somewhere exotic or creepy..like Transilvania! Try laying down in bed and looking up and BOOM there's a killer spider! Ok so the supposedly won't hurt you. I'm not taking any chances!! |
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Date: 10/21/2011 3:02:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30051
So maybe it's just that I live in earths bug portal?? |
Date: 10/21/2011 5:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 15228
I would contact a university with an entomology department. Purdue has a good one. They probably live for questions like the ones you are asking!  |
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Date: 10/21/2011 8:32:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30051
Your ideas on what it could be have been very helpful. At least I can see where these things COULD be the reason for the weirdness. My OCD mania has settled a bit..lol Thanks everybody! |
Date: 10/21/2011 10:34:00 PM
From Authorid: 62679
I have been noticing them a lot in my area too! I even had one in my car. It is BAD LUCK to kill one!  |
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Date: 10/22/2011 7:05:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30051
Well I'm in for it then. Normaly I would never kill one, but they were infesting my house! On the walls crawling on the floor. At first we were carrying them back outside. But I was over it and they were starting to creep me out. So I smashed those suckers..How much bad luck per mantis would you say?? LOL! Maybe the laws of karma will excuse this one! |
Date: 10/22/2011 10:19:00 AM
From Authorid: 64723
Ya know, now that I think of it...
I live in Maine, and I have NEVER in my life seen a preying mantis, before this summer. There were a bunch of them up here as well.
Maybe somebody was doing some research/experiments on them somewhere? I remember back in the 90's there were ladybugs EVERYWHERE, and we found out there had been some experiments being done with them, and then they were let loose. Horrifying for me. Those things are disgusting!!!  |
Date: 10/30/2011 11:13:00 AM
From Authorid: 24673
This reminds me of a story, my dad found a cocoon and put it in his underwear drawer and then forgot about it. One day he grabs a pair of underpants and it's full of baby preying mantis! He hated bugs and why he would put that thing in his drawer is a mystery. But back to your post, it does sound very strange what is happening. The only time I know that a mantis bit anyone was when my granddaughter handled one a little too roughly. We have some kind of hugh hornet looking thing that we were told is killing off the honey bees, this giant bee happens to be from Asia!  |
Date: 11/9/2011 12:14:00 AM
From Authorid: 63962
Weird stuff with animals seems to be happening a lot these days. What causes it, I have no clude. I have guesses, most going along with either shifting magnetic field of the Earth, or conspiracy theories, but non of those can be proven (at least my little old me!) to be the case. So your guess is as good as mine. LOL  |
Date: 11/9/2011 12:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 63962
A side note though about mantis: I think they are cute! I only saw one in person once (that I can recall), in a parking lot. She was pulling at a little weed ned to the curb, like she wanted to climb up it, not realizing it was way too short. It was cute! I felt bad for her.  |
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Date: 11/10/2011 2:25:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30051
I'm with on the conspiracy thing..lol and don't feel to bad the female mantis bites her mates head off! |
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Date: 7/15/2012 1:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 66225
Must have been a scary way to wake up to. I've been bitten by one as well it's def no fun. |
