Built-in binocs
I can see the game juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust fine.
I need a mini hot dog now, tho. And a beer.
ENHANCE, OMG BEF!
Says Sender-Inner Rhonda C.; "During the fourth inning this praying mantis flew up from way down by third base to land DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF US in the cheap seats at the Portland Beavers game on Friday night. Scared the living [Crapulence -Ed.] out of me until I realized what it was. Our friend Tim Goodspeed, a nature/travel/macro photographer, took this pic. The lil green guy watched the whole game with us."
Oh, I bet he watched more than just the game, Rhonda—THOSE EYES CAN LOOK INTO YER SOUL!
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All the same, I'm glad I wasn't born (hatched?) a male praying mantis.
Bejeezus, it's the cutest looking alien-type insect I eva did see!
C'mon, ump! That was nowhere near the strike zone! What are ya, blind?
[Zing! - Ed.]
So adorable!!!!
My nephew once brought a praying mantis. She was so cute! She liked me and my sister best..every time one of us walked into the room she would fly right over and land on a shoulder.
Teho - LOL! I agree! Tem female mantises are femme fatales in the truest sense of the word.
Mantises scare me too, though. They *always* look like they're going to eat you ...
He's all like........Yo, peeps, this is a good game, no?
wow! thats fantastic.
i had no idea that we had praying mantis in this area!
i've never seen one, but i'd love to go to a beavers game with this guy!
Oh wow. He's cute in a photo, but I have a feeling that if this happened to me in reality, I would have been REALLY FREAKED OUT, scared of a little praying mantis. Sad but true.
That's a sign of incredible good luck! Expect wonderful things to happen.
I'm happy for you!
Did they name it Mickey?
.........
Mickey Mantis?
...... :-p
Awe. Some.
I *heart* praying mantises. (manti??) We had a pair (well, they /were/ a pair...) one summer that had babies... dozens of teeny tinies running about the hedge out our back door. So precious!! They'd climb right up on your finger.
I had no idea they liked baseball, I would have put out my little portable 3" TV for them, lol!
p.s. oh, pyrit..... tsk tsk. terrible. XD
dats a bug. ewwwwwwww!!
ickyoverload!
That's one awesome pic, just had to say that...
I always thought these were creepy, then I found out they are able to kill and eat hummingbirds, so now they Really aren't my favorite.....
Ahhhh! I LOVE praying mantises (mantids?)!! I even have a stuffed puppet mantis (her name is Mantie). They're the best bugs EVAH! They're so cute and they can't hurt you and they eat all the bad bugs in your garden. Three cheers for the mantis!
I agree with Liz, I had no idea PMs were here in Portland! If it were me, I woulda squealed like a little girl and....oh wait, I AM a little girl...in size anyway ;P
No WAY, they go after hummingbirds?! Wow. I mean, I don't wanna see it, but...wow. Manti(?) kinda freak me out too (the whole eating their mates head thing), but I too think they're kinda cool. Ever had one face off with you? They start weaving back & forth with their little folded dukes up - I'm like Haha/GET AWAY!!
I KNOW THAT MANTIS!!! My dad and I were at a Portland Beavers game several years ago, and I watched a very drunk older gentleman offer the mantis beer, a hat, and his seat cushion, in that order.
Jenny - no wonder he/she hangs around there! "Preying" Mantis!!
Seventh inning stretch!
Time to sing Lazy Mary!
one could say that the mantis needed a micro brew!!
It must be mantis season around here. We went for a hike on Monday, not too far from the Portland area, and a mantis ended up on my husband's straw hat. He accompanied us off the hill and all the way back to the car, where he disembarked. We got a couple of pics but they're not quite this cute.
Mello -
The preferred plural form is "mantids", but some also say "mantes."
And this guy is adorable!
Oops, sorry. That shouldn't have been for Mello. My reading skills have failed me!
NotSupposedToBeDoingThisAtWork , that last one was for you!
good grief.. there seem to be lots of us Portland-area-people with nothing to do this morning but check the c.o. photos!
"not that there's anything wrong with that". :) love the mantis. I agree, his name needs to be Mickey.
He didn't even have to pay to get in. I thinking these are way cool insects.
Mantises (??) are COOL, but a bit alien-creepy as well, lol. :)
GREAT photo! Should be entered in some competitions.
ok I'm reading a book, during the teengirl time of my life and was sitting outside in my back yard minding my own business when I feel a fwump on my chest. Betwyxt myself and my book I had a visitor very much like this guy.
Needless to say despite knowing they can't hurt me same as the sender-inner it scared the whatitz outta me and my book went flying and I ran around screaming like an idiot. Ol Mantis must've been yucking it up big time to his buddies later, cause he hung on! I'm running around screaming like a banshee and it didn't fly away! I had to grab a stick and "encourage" it to climb onto that before dropping it like a hot potato.
THEN when I realized exactly what this monster was, THEN I was like, "cool" and sat and stared at it for a long time before it finally had enough & flew away.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;-)
Am I the only one amused by the idea of a drunk praying mantis?
Bugs are icky, not cute!
Hee! I looked at that and went "Wow, that looks an awful lot like the Portland Beavers park... but we don't have praying mantis around here..."
Looks like we do! Go Beavers!
This pic is fabulous! I found one in my apartment last summer, it was like being visited by an alien. And yes, Flavia they are a lucky omen :)
*i dream of jeannie eye blink/ponytail bob*
done
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http://www.gluttonsess.com/blog/beer_20checkers_small.jpg
^^
squish eet! squish eet noweeeeeooooh!
well Mary(the first one)-
we here in PDX love CO.
so, like "notsupposedtobedoingthisatwork"
I for one am Not supposed to be doing this at work.
But i love it and it makes me smile.
just like that goofy PM does! :)
These mantids (it's probably a Chinese Mantis) are not native to the western states, but do show up from time to time. But seriously Rhonda C., you need to go get a copy of "A Mantis Carol" by Laurens van der Post. The mantis is sort of a "god" to the bushmen of southern Africa and he might have a message for you!! It's a short read, but wonderful.
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/ec/ec1605.pdf
I absolutely adore these little guys... I usually find one or two throughout the summer, here in South Carolina... I found one the other day on my screen door.. I was very careful to not knock him off on my trips in and out of the door...
Metz, you had me laughing out loud in the office with your story... I could just see you running around screaming!! LOL
Pyrite, that was sooooo baaaaaaadddddd
My feelings are seriously hurt. I sent this photo in maybe a year (or more) ago, and Meg never used it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tulasi-priya/268546000/
I thought perhaps a "no insects" rule excluded my darling bug, but no, I see that that was not the case. (And Snailio Iglesias is NOT in the bug family)
My damselfly is WAY much cuter than that mantis, and the photo is not at all 'shopped, in case anyone's wondering. What does it take to get your submishes considered around here?
I love you Zorak!
Anything involving an aminal and baseball automatically makes my week extra-spaycial. Thanks Meg and Rhonda, excellent photo!
I know I'm in the minority on this one....but eeeeeew! Bugs not cute!
*must go wash my eyeballs now*
Tulasi-Priya -- Meg gets literally tens of thousands of photo submissions every month (in fact, maybe it's more, now). She doesn't have a department to sort them all; she's got herself (and sometimes her sister).
Also, there's bound to be duplication; different folks often send in the same pix, without meaning to.
Speaking of washing one's eyeballs....What's all over Ms.Mantis's face? Mites? Crackerjack dust?
I agree with "I'm a bunny person": he's cute in a photo, but if I saw him in real life I'd probably freak out. I think it's the supreme BEF and the ginormous gangly front legs. Eeeek!
Wow - that is one beautiful picture! Wow. I dream of such photography skilz.
Tulasi-Priya - your damselfly is beautiful!
How special to be able to see her so up close.
Thank you for sharing the pic here!
LOL, I thought it said Built in bionics, so "I can see the game just fine." Was even funnier...Can't you just hear that noise that Steve Austin would make when he jumped now?
There's supposed to be a "Bionic Woman" remake on TV this fall, CBF.
(everything old is new again)
(or so I have heard)
And yet I still don't look any younger.
Hah, Crapulence!