we hardly knew each other

@btroje I remember when my son had one for a pet. He fed it grass hoppers.

I think that beam just made her butt look big

@btroje I like bug butts and I cannot lie...

@btroje You NEVER know!!!! I thought the same once and wound up scrambling for gnats in the middle of winter(blizzards, bad roads) to prevent a mantis holocaust !!! (only 3 survived! ) The girl in question did NOT look pg to me at the time,laid an oootheca I thought was bunk, mistakenly(!), particularly if you found her in late summer, the chances are high she was LOL

@Qualia I think she looked preggers too. I just had to say that

@Blindbird LOL

@hankster exceptionally good pun, my friend.

@hankster lol

I'd let it out so the cats don't get it. We've made pets out of them before. They make really awesome pets, altho a bit time consuming, so fun, like an alien & a robot had a baby. All sorts of varieties in the world. There are even FB forums devoted to their care...and people buy them too... I'd love a "violin" mantis... but they aren't without some effort to keep.