Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Jungle in the back yard

Monday saw the unfolding of an amazing event right in my room.  The praying mantis egg case that my brother, Sam, had gotten at the bug fair last week hatched.  Hundreds of baby mantises marched out, fully formed miniature versions of their parents, and proceeded to fill their terrarium.  Then Sam and I launched an hour-long effort to disperse them in our yard.  I would not want to be a tiny bug in my backyard this week.



All of these simultaneous births got me to thinking about the meaning of life, and I came up with this:
"The best way to approach the meaning of life is to live it."
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  1. UnknownMay 30, 2010 at 6:16 PM

    Hi Max...this reminds of the time when your cousin Jaime was around 5 or 6 and I had purchased a praying mantis egg case to put out into the vegetable garden...well, Jaime couldn't wait and sitting in the living room on the couch he punctured the egg case and released the little creatures all over the house. What a time we had trying to collect them! Aunt Patrice

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  2. AlexJune 1, 2010 at 3:40 PM

    I really like the perspective with that picture (and praying mantises)! Mantodea actually comes from m'antis and idos, Greek words meaning soothsayer and appearance. This is pretty cool, considering baby mantises are called nymphs. So really, you had a bunch of nymphs running around your garden! ...That sounds cute, except nymphs (the bugs, not Greek mythological girls) usually eat each other. Hopefully that's not the kind you have.

    (Sorry if the random info wasn't that interesting -- I just really liked mantises when I was younger.)

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  3. MaxwellJune 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM

    A very cool story (we had some escape in the house as well) and some interesting information (especially considering that I'm looking at Greek ruins on an almost daily basis). Thanks for sharing, guys.

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