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...'Gigantic' praying mantis terrorizes NYC subway riders as it hitches a ride on the 6 train
Daily Mail UK ^
| 14 August 2019
| Josh Saunders
Posted on 08/15/2019 6:03:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A praying mantis ensured there were no flies on commuters as it hopped aboard a New York Subway train Tuesday and caused quite a stir.
City Councilman Keith Powers was traveling Uptown on the 6 train, when another rider told him that his head was dangerously close to the long-legged insect.
He snapped a picture of the mantis as it clung onto the metal inner frame of the subway cart and stared at passengers.
Captured in its synonymous 'praying pose,' the bug seemed unfazed by worried people around it all eyeing up its sizable green and brown torso and black eyes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Gardening; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: newyork; prayingmantis; subway; terrorizes; zorak
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It is a good insect. Always welcome in the garden.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:03:55 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:04:57 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:06:32 AM PDT
by
fruser1
To: BenLurkin
“...It is a good insect. Always welcome in the garden.....”
Yep. It would be even better if it preyed on RATs.
It would always be welcome in the swamp.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:06:41 AM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
To: BenLurkin
As a kid, I bought their eggs to put in our garden.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:06:46 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: BenLurkin
I bought an egg sack 2 years ago, the little buggers are still everywhere! They’ve made a noticeable dent in the insect population, always welcome.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:07:12 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
To: BenLurkin
Captured in its synonymous ‘praying pose,’
Synonymous? Really?
Is this the NYT and not a British source?
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:07:13 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
To: BenLurkin
Poor thing. All he is doing is being there.
NYC full of dingbats.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:09:08 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up, even you baggybutt!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:09:12 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
To: BenLurkin
I’m disappointed I thought this will a post about Hillary Clinton being sited on a subway in NYC.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:09:34 AM PDT
by
ReformedBeckite
(1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
To: BenLurkin
Terror. Part and parcel. Trump’s fault no doubt.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:09:39 AM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: BenLurkin
Those are so awesome.
We need to build robotic models that are seven feet tall and stage them on the border.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:10:32 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
To: yuleeyahoo
Thinking the same...
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:11:13 AM PDT
by
C210N
(qui)
To: null and void
Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown the media.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:13:14 AM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: ConservativeMind
As a nursery and greenhouse grower, I bought hundreds of Mantid
Chrysalis and distributed them thru the GHs and Nursery, instead of using chemicals. Hundreds hatch from each Chrysalis, and they stayed on my 20ac for many years, generation after generation.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:13:55 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: carriage_hill
We have them in our yard too. Saw one grab a moth and bite the head off, nature, brutal, lol
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:18:04 AM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: BenLurkin
They really are scraping bottom using this as news.
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:19:56 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
To: BenLurkin
City folk. “Ew, it’s a bug!”
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posted on
08/15/2019 6:20:19 AM PDT
by
gop4lyf
(Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
To: BenLurkin
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