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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DewDrop" data-source="post: 61244" data-attributes="member: 4217"><p>yeah I know that. I actually grew up in a place where the green mantis and anoles were pretty common sight in the city wilds. Even had grey bobbing huntsman spiders, or daddy long legs. Grey with a little body the size of a pencil eraser top. They are actually endangered now I believe the huntsman.  They would get in huge groups and just bob around. The icing on the non literal cake was the huge, giant blue morpho butterfly that would fly around, no where near Peru. Even had banana spiders and pill bugs.  SO getting a preying mantis would just be reaching too far back. It'd be too odd having one as a pet for me. I like seeing the pictures of the types that resemble leaves. I caught so many preying mantis as a child and let so many go, I just have no interest in them as pets.  Sounds like some kind of theme that perhaps should of come out of Alice in Wonderland. Really however it is an example of exactly what can happen when people have pets that are not native, they get out, they populate in spring, manage to hang on just long enough in the summer or even manage survival of a winter and populate. SO I do try and be careful, very mindful of what it is I obtain in case it gets out. Mantis would cook out in the summer heat here so while it could be a pet, still, no interest for them now however fascinated I was by all that over 20 years ago. Thankfully I never saw the mantis eat each other or do anything gross.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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