Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The Model Mantis
Luckily on this day I had brought my camera to work, because a beautiful Praying Mantis decided to hang out by our back door. She was quite interested in what I was doing and was a bit feisty. Here are some photos from that day.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
The Reluctant Orb Weaver
It was a Saturday and my mom had decided to mow the lawn. As she was mowing she almost got a face full of web and orb weaver. The Orb weaver (as they like to do) had put up a web from the corner of our garage to the tree in the middle of our [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Welcome to insectRIOT.com
I first fell in love with insects when I met my first Praying Mantis when I was a young girl. They fascinated me and I was intrigued because they didn’t run away. Now I enjoy “dancing” with them. For years I didn’t pay much attention to the insects around. When we bought our house we [...]