Carolina Mantises
Finn found this pair. of mating praying mantises last Friday while helping a neighbor. I ran home to get my camera but couldn’t find it because someone had been making home movies of Gopher Guts… So I grabbed our largest bug habitat and ran back to Finn. We observed them for a couple of days, betting on whether or not the female would eat the male. She decapitated him on Saturday but never consumed him (he continued mating for another 24 hours!).
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