Here is a visitor that came today, just thought she looked cool!
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| Author: | LanceK [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:06 pm ] |
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Here is a visitor that came today, just thought she looked cool!
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| Author: | Jim Watts [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:28 pm ] |
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Nice picture Lance, she does look cool. |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:32 pm ] |
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Is this what they call an illegal alien? 
Nice little one! |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:39 pm ] |
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Cool, we had visitor's too, about 60 of my neighbours (some are praying mantis'  , not really)
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| Author: | Anthony Z [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:20 pm ] |
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Lance -- duh me -- I didn't realize Praying Mantis are indigenous to Michigan. That's some fine photography. Make sure you sent them to Craig Lavin -- I see her on the headstock or fretboard on one of your future guitars. EDIT: I really like the second picture - she looks like she is soluting you |
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| Author: | Billy T [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:27 pm ] |
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I didn't know you were friends with Joan Rivers!
What's that she crawling on? Billy Dean |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:03 pm ] |
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Billy, shes on a lilly in my front yard. I think they are very cool insects. My guess is she is looking for a place to lay her egg case. Here are a few more. 
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| Author: | JBreault [ Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:12 pm ] |
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That's really cool Lance. I'm with Anthony, the second picture looks like it could become a headstock or fretboard inlay. |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:48 am ] |
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Cool Insects????? You're kidding, right? Do you realize that after a female mates with a male, she will turn around and eat the male? Sorry, in book, that's just NOT cool... |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:12 am ] |
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Oh heck, I thought she just bit his head off. What a meanie! |
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| Author: | npalen [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:40 am ] |
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I guess a caption could read "afterglow" then. |
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| Author: | A Peebels [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:15 am ] |
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My wife kept one for a pet a few years back. She laid eggs 3 times before she finally died ( the mantis not my wife). Mary (my wife) named her spike ( the mantis not my wife). Mantises actually show quite a bit of intellagence for an insect. It would be perched on my wife's finger, and it was like the mantis was sizing her up. We fed spike about a dozen crickets per week. Normally they die at the first hard frost and the eggs live over the winter. Spike made it to March, so she lived to the ripe old age of 1, when their usual lifespan is about 3/4 year assuming that they are not eaten first. We kept spikes eg cases until they hatched. Had tiny mantises everywhere in the shop for a while. Al |
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| Author: | Evan Gluck [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:19 am ] |
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Wow that is so cool Lance, I wish I lived in the country sometimes to see stuff like that. But when I see a waterbug in my kitchen I wish I lived on Jupiter
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| Author: | Alain Desforges [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:36 pm ] |
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Very cool pictures Lance... |
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| Author: | Billy T [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:52 pm ] |
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[quote]But when I see a waterbug in my kitchen I wish I lived on Jupiter [/quote] It's funny! Everybody else has cockroachs but when there in your own place they're waterbugs!
I think I'm the only one that actually has waterbugs! 
Last night after my OLF session I saw something weird on the oven! It was a 3-inch Mantis! It's an omen, I tell you! I just can't figure what it means, do we have any oracles on the OLF? Billy Dean Thomas |
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| Author: | Evan Gluck [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:04 am ] |
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We get waterbugs  its the only thing that makes my wife scream and run. While I was at the GAL convention 3 got into the house, she was freaking out. Roaches are no problem. In the past we have had rats in the walls, mice, and carpet beetles, we joke that biblically speaking we are due for frogs or the rivers turning to blood. I want a mantis already!
Evan |
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| Author: | CarltonM [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:46 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Billy T]I saw something weird on the oven! It was a 3-inch Mantis! I just can't figure what it means...[/QUOTE] Don't be alarmed. It just means that your oven is actually a teleportation device, and Lance sent you one. It should take care of the waterbugs! |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:13 pm ] |
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Or that it's hungry! |
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| Author: | Lillian F-W [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:38 pm ] |
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Must be the season. Came home last week to find it's cousin on the gate. I was pushing it open before I really look. We were almost eye to eye. It was kinda cool. The difference was mine was the color of the wings on this one. Of all the insects, I have always thought praying mantises were the coolest. |
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| Author: | clavin [ Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:39 am ] |
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But I would rather inlay the Malaysain varieties that look like the flowers they inhabit. That one is cool though! Craig L |
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| Author: | Lillian F-W [ Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:18 am ] |
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Craig they sound beautiful. I'm going to have to see if I can find pictures, though I would rather see them in person. Not this week, maybe next
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| Author: | Kirt Myers [ Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:23 am ] |
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We discoved a couple weeks ago we have a couple red squirrels living in the soffets of our porch. So, last weekend I was up on the roof with a BB gun, while my wife was downstairs banging on the walls trying to flush em out. We live on a small lake and when I looked up there were 2 people on a boat watching me. I was half waiting for the swat team to show up. I still haven't got the little **!!!@@%%'s yet. Not the kind of visitors I like. 
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| Author: | Martin Turner [ Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:16 pm ] |
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Praying mantis's great to watch...until they eat their mates!! |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:15 am ] |
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Keep her around and you will have no problem with afids |
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