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@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-06-26 10:53:49

Spotted this tiny praying mantis peeping in our window. I think just under 2 centimeters long. I tried to get my index finger in for scale.
#prayingmantis #Insects #WildLife

A small, green praying mantis is doing a wobbly walk on the edge of a window screen. My fingertip looks huge in comparison and causes the insect to hasten away, climbing further up the screen.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-28 22:31:45

Behold! A praying mantis came to me in a vision, and they spake:
I was born in the temple of cracked reeds,
my limbs broken compasses angled toward famine.
I learned hunger as scripture,
and patience as the whetstone of my soul.
Know this, children: the air is my parchment,
flesh my scribe.
I write the fate of moths with the green ink of my raptorial forelegs.
When I devour, it is not cruelty but covenant.
When I bow my head, it is not ritual bu…