Praying Mantis (Mantis Religiosa)
Personal memory by Shalynn Moser
1993 • Ogden, UT, USA
When I was a kid I remember seeing Praying Mantis's (Mantis religiosa) all the time in the late summer. It was until a friend of mine was doing a project for school in which she needed to collect various species of insects, that it had not dawned on me that I rarely see these insects any more and the sightings are far and few in between. These insects will probably be gone before my grandchildren ever get to see them.
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