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Who wants 2000 more bugs in their yard? Don’t worry, it is rare to actually see them in the yard. I have hunted and combed through my bushes for long periods of time looking for them and they are hard to find. I know they are in my yard somewhere and they keep themselves well hidden. I think they eat every bug in the bushes and then they rise up to invade the tree. Before I started my mantis attack, my pool, which is under the willow, would be full of bugs.
They all die out in the fall.
One year one of my neighbor’s asked me to order some mantis cocoons for him. I bought ten egg cases and I gave him five. When you get these egg cases you have to tie each one up in the bushes and they will hatch in three to ten days.
About ten days after the egg cases arrived I saw my neighbor in his yard and he gestured to me that he wanted to talk to me and he proceeded to tell me an amusing story. He was upstairs and he heard his wife screaming in the kitchen. He ran downstairs and he saw hundreds of bugs jumping and flying all over his kitchen. He had forgotten to install the cocoons in the bushes. Instead, they hatched on his kitchen counter and they were everywhere.
Some people like ladybugs. I don’t like ladybugs because they bite. The mantis is the silent killer.
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