Musings on my neverending quest for sugar

Once it starts out a bug day....

It's gonna be a bug day!

Getting back from the Cheney lab, I stepped over a strange-looking twig. Curious, I turned back and peered at it more carefully. Two large beady eyes of a large grey praying mantis stared back at me. She was literally the same color as the walkway.

Huh, I thought, I thought praying mantises were supposed to green, or at least a more natural color...

But I figured getting her off the walkway would be a good idea. (*splatsquish*) I took a large leaf and started to shoo her toward the grass. She got all pissed and assumed an attack stance: legs up, wings out. Rawr. But I got her off the walkway anyway.

Then it occurred to me that she could stand out on the green grass. Maybe birds will mistake her for a twig....or hopefully she'll find a tree soon. Hmm.

posted by sugarfiend @ 11:52 AM