RE: The scariest bug I have ever seen and Timelapse Photo #34
Ppl sometimes confuse em with cockroaches. They also can bite and the bite is painful. Even dead I still wouldn't want to smash it. Yuck!! We have some scary bugs here too. Some HUGE giant beetle that flies...looks like something from a horror movie or time forgot!! I don't understand their purpose either. We also have preying mantis here, which I adore because they kill earwigs, which are on my list of HATE, as well as other pests! I realize that in parts of the world preying mantis can get so big that they can kill a small bird, but I still rather have them then not. Greenhouses here sell their egg nests that you can put in your garden to hatch. I, being ever crazy, would buy both a preying mantis nest AND a bunch of lady bugs that I released part inside the house as well as out because I found them helpful in reducing indoor pests. Specially the mantis! Some even have em as pets!!
And there's even pretty orchid mantis!!
So lucky! Mantis are one of my favorite bugs. I mean, i'm a huge pansycake, so I probably wouldn't touch it, but I think it would be cool to observe them!
Ohh I get it! I don't think I could handle a preying mantis, unless it was a pretty orchid one, crawling on me either and that's a bug I like! Altho I have no problems with the babies so I guess size does matter. Lol hehe! Allegedly due to our higher elevation, we don't have as many bugs they say, but I bet to differ. We not only have em, but seem to be getting more!! Just like all of Colorado never used to have any kind of a humid season but the part I live in, now does like August-septemberish. Reminds me of the humidity we had in s Dakota when I was little. Aberdeen, where I was born, could be super humid!!