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.
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I stumbled on that, too. Eponymous might be what he was searching for.
Wow. I haven’t seen any of them lately, maybe they’ve all migrated to NYC and LA where they have more flies to eat.
Hahaha. I had one get stuck in a trash can once - scratched the hell out of the walls trying to get out. I discovered it the next day as I was dropping something in ... hissing at me, mouth wide open. Flipped it over and off he ran.
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