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Fastass350:

Only thing worth sharing during my elk hunt today :chuckle: sitting on a hillside overlooking a clear cut and I heard a hissing noise behind me. Thought my dad who was a hundred yds away was blowing his nose til I noticed what turned out to be a preying mantis all puffed up. Later I heard it again and caught this lizard trying to get it.

lokidog:

That's cool!

Bango skank:

Praying mantises are awesome. Dont see too many of them though. Week or so ago when i went hiking up in a bad scorched earth area to check a cam i found one of those alligator lizards. Seemed pretty weird finding him up on a burnt husk of a mountain, but there he was, healthy as can be.

Jonathan_S:

--- Quote from: Bango skank on October 04, 2015, 09:13:03 AM --- Praying mantises are awesome. Dont see too many of them though. Week or so ago when i went hiking up in a bad scorched earth area to check a cam i found one of those alligator lizards. Seemed pretty weird finding him up on a burnt husk of a mountain, but there he was, healthy as can be.

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Late summer I will see thousands of them every day. They congregate on the siding of my shop in the mornings. For about a month I will have thousands of June Bugs every day and then after they are gone, the mantis shows up :dunno:

huntingbaldguy:

I had a praying mantis land on me in elk season. Tried shooing him off, he got on my bow. Those suckers have an iron grip.

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