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Well, with it being Christmas and all, it's a good thing they weren't the goat-sacrificing mantises.
Posted by: AmoebaStampede | December 21, 2022 at 09:42 AM
On the plus side I think they eat spiders when they grow up.
Posted by: LeDud | December 21, 2022 at 09:44 AM
Well, they were praying, after all. I wonder if they would be going to Christmas Mass?
Posted by: Steverino | December 21, 2022 at 10:10 AM
They are there to mitigate the usual holiday plague of locusts.
Posted by: Clankie | December 21, 2022 at 10:50 AM
Well, that is one way to bring religion back into the holidays (it's not like they're agnostic mantises).
Posted by: David Puddy | December 21, 2022 at 11:34 AM
When you get sick of the usual Christmas entertainment offerings, you can watch the female mantises bite the heads off the males. Bound to be better than what's on TV.
Posted by: Rod | December 21, 2022 at 01:35 PM
That's a lot of screaming about some harmless insects. The flocking chemicals on the tree are probably more dangerous.
Posted by: Ralph | December 21, 2022 at 02:05 PM
Where are all the snakes when you need one? A young snake could chow down in a bug-infested tree. Then you could get a mongoose…
Posted by: Math Yoda | December 21, 2022 at 03:17 PM
On the plus side, they'll help clear out other unwanted guests.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | December 21, 2022 at 04:08 PM
They will fit nicely in the song '12 Days of Christmas': "and a tree full of praying mantiseseseses."
Posted by: Pullet Surprise | December 21, 2022 at 04:24 PM
This happened to the daughter of a friend of the blog a few years ago.
Posted by: wiredog | December 22, 2022 at 07:17 AM
Years back Costco had recall on Christmas Tree shaped rosemary bushes fearing that they harbored black widow spiders. (I gifted my brother-in-law with one, awkward).
Posted by: cfjk | December 22, 2022 at 08:00 AM