Guess The Bug !!
 

ok i know what it is :D but i wanna see how many of you know !

it freaked me out it came flying at me i ran inside squeezing poor austin half to death and im shaking LMAO STOP LAUGHING well when i realized what it was i was laughing myself so what is the bug ????
in newyork its illegal to kill them

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prayingmantist.
Ramsey attacked on at the park the other day.

that looks like a parimantis (sp) .. isnt it .. ???

It is a Praying mantis. Wonderful bug to have in your gardens. Not one of God's pretties creations. I am not a bug fan either and the south is full of ugly insects.... :eek:

YEP your all right !! theres not many here i really dont know much about it i havent seen one since i was like 9 or 10 i use to play with them lol

hahahah i looked it up its not true i grew up thinking it was illegal here some info lol


Claim: Killing praying mantises is illegal in (parts of) the USA.
Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1999]

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/mantis2.htm

When I was growing up in New Jersey, I used to find praying mantises in our driveway and back yard every once in a while. It was illegal in NJ to kill a praying mantis, as I remember.



Origins: The belief that it is illegal to kill a praying mantis (a crime carrying a $50 fine as a punishment) has been floating around since the 1960s, and we have no idea where this bit of insectoid legal apocrypha came from. There is not (and never has been) any federal or state law proscribing the killing of praying mantises. They're certainly useful insects that are best left alone since they eat a lot of other bugs we consider pests, but they're hardly an endangered species. (If they were endangered, killing them would carry a fine far heftier than $50.) Maybe because they're considered beneficial insects and have such an unusual posture (they're prayin', fer gosh sake!) people literally thought it a crime to kill them.

Last updated: 31 October 1999

all I can say is EEEEK!!! they give me the heebie geebies!!!

Its a praying mantis. I used to play with them when I was a little girl :)

We always have them on our deck this time of year - in fact, just saw one the other day. I always have fun putting my zoom lense on my camera & getting close-ups so I can see their little face! God created some interesting creatures!! Here's a couple of pics!