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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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To: null and void

I stumbled on that, too. Eponymous might be what he was searching for.


61 posted on 08/15/2019 10:39:11 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Pride in the USA

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.


62 posted on 08/15/2019 1:39:45 PM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: csvset

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.


63 posted on 08/15/2019 5:51:02 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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