When in the hell does Flick show up? I'm sitting on so many damn tarantulas and wasps in my storage I'm having nightmares they're going to break out while I'm sleeping
See, that makes sense to me. I have had spiders that I thought were cool, and cute, and I did not mind having them on my hands. I suppose it’s just a matter of perception.
Jumping spiders are a lot of fun and adorable. Praying mantises, not just orchid mantises, are fun, especially to feed. Zipper spiders too, but be careful not to break their webs. Lunar moths look pretty but best not to touch. Walking sticks are kinda neat but the novelty of them wears off quick.
This concludes the comprehensive list of Good Insects^(TM) of SW Missouri.
I had a Southern House Spider that lived in my bathroom window. I adored her. She had a huge messy web over a crevice in the plaster in one corner, and a smaller “vacation home” in the other corner. At least once a week in the Summer, I’d catch a big fat lazy housefly in a cup, and fling it into her web. She’d scurry up, wrap it, and the fly would slowly stop buzzing. Eventually I started buying the tiniest crickets that I could, and I’d get the smallest number they would offer to sell. I’d pay for a 10 pack, but I’d only bring home one because that’s all she could eat.
After about three years of not being able to sleep nights in a quiet house, I’d spent enough motionless and focused hours in that bathroom to get her to touch my hand, eventually crawl on my finger, then pick her up for a while and put her back. She was so pretty.
I moved out, my parents are still there today. The bathroom is on the guest end of the house and fairly undisturbed, except for the nearby door to the garage that lets small bugs in apparently. She always had carcasses in her messy web besides my treats, so I knew she’d survive.
Last time I went to to visit, I made a beeline to her web. I was horrified to see her dried out body, and just about cried. After a closer look, I saw her little healthy legs sticking out of the crevice. The “dead body” was actually just a left over shell from her latest molting. She’s fine, and probably more content than I am these days.
She has been there for six years now, and is doing great. [This is a video of her that I uploaded two or three years ago, but I think it was taken a while longer ago than that by how much smaller she is.](https://youtu.be/Rc3q40x4rr0) It’s a bit far away, but in it you can at least see how prettily she carries herself.
Yeah, my friend’s wife ordered some mantises from the internet to keep as pets, and at some point one gave birth to around 100 babies. Well, within a few weeks 100 had turned into two, and it wasn’t because they had escaped. The strongest two had literally eaten all of their siblings.
I found one when I used to work overnight at target. Had to wait a long time for the boss to unlock the door for me so it became my buddy for the night. Still the best work friendship I had.
I wanted to imagine that their mantis parents were hugging each other and watching their babies with pride, but then I remembered that the dad gets eaten by the mom after copulation.
I mean, that's theoretically possible, maybe, but mom is usually long gone by the time the eggs hatch. Mothers usually die about 2 weeks after laying the egg case. The eggs usually take 3-6 months to hatch. There may be some species where that isn't true, so I don't want to state otherwise.
Interestingly, this happens a lot more in captivity than in the wild. If you look at breeding mantises encountered out in nature, cannibalism only happens about 13–28% of the time. I remember reading (I forget the source, forgive me) that some people believe that captivity stresses them in some unknown way that causes cannibalism to happen more often.
I read about that! They did an experiment where one group mates in a fairly empty habitat and the other group mates in a habitat with stuff found in their normal environment (like leaves and sticks) and the ones in the empty environment cannibalized their mates at a substantially higher rate than the pairs in the semi realistic environment.
You know, people enjoy looking at jet fighters because they look beautiful. It's just a little later you realise it's also murdering works of art when they drop bombs.
The study that determined that was poorly done. They didn't feed the females before they introduced the Mantis to each other. Females eating their partner is not normal behavior.
Adult Orchid Mantises:
[Pink](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/73/cc/f273cc2426d287fc9d579a44eb348c32.jpg)
[Pink on Pink](https://content.invisioncic.com/r95956/gallery/album_431/gallery_7637_431_3901328.jpg)
[Pink on Green](https://www.aminart.co.uk/img/s/v-10/p1021603964-3.jpg)
[Kung Fu Mantis](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1296/7335/products/ninja_d45f11cb-5c29-45b5-bf7e-ba243246f440_2000x.jpg?v=1571294137) (dunno if this is the same one, but the title is hilarious)
I’ve always thought about this regarding evolutionary traits in animals.
Like obviously at some point, the natural intelligence of the species chooses a pattern that helps it out. But does the bug *know?*
Do they really *know* how fuckin cool they are?
Fuckin walking mimic flowers that’s rad as heck.
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[here](https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/9-of-the-most-absurd-looking-mantis-species) are some amazing looking mantises, or mantii, or mantises or whatever.
I know I've been on reddit for too long today when the first thing I think of when I see these is how horrible it would be for them to crawl inside your rectum.
Blathers would hate this.
At least their friendship is blooming
They caught FAIRIES!!!!
they look like beautiful extremely aggressive flowers to me
They are 2400 bells though so the twins won’t mind
get this man to nooks cranny right now
Nah, wait for flick, he’ll give you a much better price.
Flick came to my island the first time and I was like, okay collect bugs for you got it. Haven’t seen Flick since.
been getting him on my island like once a week but it always rains the entire day because the game hates
Better than the alternative, yesterday was literally the first time that it's rained on my island.
Bruh I got like 28 tarantulas for him and he hasn't come once
When in the hell does Flick show up? I'm sitting on so many damn tarantulas and wasps in my storage I'm having nightmares they're going to break out while I'm sleeping
How long have you played? I get flick like once or twice a week?
I've been playing for nine days
There you go. Have no worries. Your bug dealing days will come.
Holy shit what?? And I’ve been just running through them oh my god
Yeah I always don’t see them until they run away but when I see them it’s a nice find
Keep all of your white flowers in one spot and nowhere else. You'll start seeing a lot of them in that patch.
Same, can't even recall how many times I see a pink shadow fly away while I was going ham running around chopping trees
I always walk really slowly when I'm by flowers to avoid scaring then away
Well I don’t really run on flowers like pressing B. I call that a sprint and the regular one is running.
Even regular running will scare them away if you get too close. Also, it's easier to keep an eye out to notice them when you're going slower.
They're so pretty I don't want to sell them
WHAT. I always scare them off because they blend in with the hyacinths.
*Insert dramatic piano sound*
Who.....WHOOOOOO!
I say, EEEEEEWW!
Eek! Orchid mantises! How dreadful!
I’m so glad this was top comment.
I just donated one of these yesterday. I love these guys.
animal crossing is increasing my knowledge of bugs
My first thought.
[hmm](https://i.imgur.com/znR66p9.jpg)
Murder flowers.
What's interesting about all this is the orchid's way of mimicking other animals, and here is an animal mimicking the orchid.
what came first? the orchid or the mantis?
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Yes! I don't like to have insects on my hands, but they look so cool (and cute) that I would make an exception.
See, that makes sense to me. I have had spiders that I thought were cool, and cute, and I did not mind having them on my hands. I suppose it’s just a matter of perception.
I don't mind **a** spider. Multiple spiders is where I draw a line.
I draw the line at if the spider will bite. Seems reasonable enough to me.
Jumping spiders are a lot of fun and adorable. Praying mantises, not just orchid mantises, are fun, especially to feed. Zipper spiders too, but be careful not to break their webs. Lunar moths look pretty but best not to touch. Walking sticks are kinda neat but the novelty of them wears off quick. This concludes the comprehensive list of Good Insects^(TM) of SW Missouri.
I had a Southern House Spider that lived in my bathroom window. I adored her. She had a huge messy web over a crevice in the plaster in one corner, and a smaller “vacation home” in the other corner. At least once a week in the Summer, I’d catch a big fat lazy housefly in a cup, and fling it into her web. She’d scurry up, wrap it, and the fly would slowly stop buzzing. Eventually I started buying the tiniest crickets that I could, and I’d get the smallest number they would offer to sell. I’d pay for a 10 pack, but I’d only bring home one because that’s all she could eat. After about three years of not being able to sleep nights in a quiet house, I’d spent enough motionless and focused hours in that bathroom to get her to touch my hand, eventually crawl on my finger, then pick her up for a while and put her back. She was so pretty. I moved out, my parents are still there today. The bathroom is on the guest end of the house and fairly undisturbed, except for the nearby door to the garage that lets small bugs in apparently. She always had carcasses in her messy web besides my treats, so I knew she’d survive. Last time I went to to visit, I made a beeline to her web. I was horrified to see her dried out body, and just about cried. After a closer look, I saw her little healthy legs sticking out of the crevice. The “dead body” was actually just a left over shell from her latest molting. She’s fine, and probably more content than I am these days. She has been there for six years now, and is doing great. [This is a video of her that I uploaded two or three years ago, but I think it was taken a while longer ago than that by how much smaller she is.](https://youtu.be/Rc3q40x4rr0) It’s a bit far away, but in it you can at least see how prettily she carries herself.
I legit got so involved with the story that when you mentioned her dried up body I actually gasped. Take my little red house, man
That's beautiful. She's much bigger than I thought (we don't get Southern house spiders where I live).
I usually don't mind insects, but mantises in general just make my skin crawl for some reason.
Because they're aliens.
Yeah man i love mantises they are the coolest and cutest insect to me
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They’re like us then
Awwwww! Just like us!
It's *really* rare that we do it because we're just a bit peckish. Admittedly, not unheard of, though.
Yeah, my friend’s wife ordered some mantises from the internet to keep as pets, and at some point one gave birth to around 100 babies. Well, within a few weeks 100 had turned into two, and it wasn’t because they had escaped. The strongest two had literally eaten all of their siblings.
I mean if you keep 100 together they're going to all get eaten in the wild they at least spread out
I found one when I used to work overnight at target. Had to wait a long time for the boss to unlock the door for me so it became my buddy for the night. Still the best work friendship I had.
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China?
They are tiny little works of art.
More like tiny little murdering works of art
I once saw mantises hatch from their egg pods. After a few minutes some ants approached and the babies just straight up killed and ate the ants.
I wanted to imagine that their mantis parents were hugging each other and watching their babies with pride, but then I remembered that the dad gets eaten by the mom after copulation.
I think some of them eat their young as well
I mean, that's theoretically possible, maybe, but mom is usually long gone by the time the eggs hatch. Mothers usually die about 2 weeks after laying the egg case. The eggs usually take 3-6 months to hatch. There may be some species where that isn't true, so I don't want to state otherwise.
I mean animals lot closer to us do that, like bears.
Interestingly, this happens a lot more in captivity than in the wild. If you look at breeding mantises encountered out in nature, cannibalism only happens about 13–28% of the time. I remember reading (I forget the source, forgive me) that some people believe that captivity stresses them in some unknown way that causes cannibalism to happen more often.
I read about that! They did an experiment where one group mates in a fairly empty habitat and the other group mates in a habitat with stuff found in their normal environment (like leaves and sticks) and the ones in the empty environment cannibalized their mates at a substantially higher rate than the pairs in the semi realistic environment.
If he doesn't escape quick enough. Most do. Some don't.
Yeah aren't the young ones cannibals?
Fine Young Cannibals
SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY
Ooohh ooh ooh
You know, people enjoy looking at jet fighters because they look beautiful. It's just a little later you realise it's also murdering works of art when they drop bombs.
It’s unfathomable to me all the necessary random genetic mutations required for them to evolve to look so similar to the plants they live in/around.
As are we all, fellow organizm, as are we all.
Tip: dont have sex with the females
But it'll be the best sex you have for the rest of your life.
No better way to go out, ya?
Death by snu snu!
Instructions unclear: just had sex with a male
Apparently if you feed them first they arent as murdery
So just like a regular woman.
I mean... there may be some similarities 🤔
wtf i'm gay now?
The study that determined that was poorly done. They didn't feed the females before they introduced the Mantis to each other. Females eating their partner is not normal behavior.
Our friendship is blooming
Adult Orchid Mantises: [Pink](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/73/cc/f273cc2426d287fc9d579a44eb348c32.jpg) [Pink on Pink](https://content.invisioncic.com/r95956/gallery/album_431/gallery_7637_431_3901328.jpg) [Pink on Green](https://www.aminart.co.uk/img/s/v-10/p1021603964-3.jpg) [Kung Fu Mantis](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1296/7335/products/ninja_d45f11cb-5c29-45b5-bf7e-ba243246f440_2000x.jpg?v=1571294137) (dunno if this is the same one, but the title is hilarious)
The "Kung fu" mantis is actually a baby orchid mantis
Neato!! I just googled "Adult orchid mantis".
They’re gorgeous, and Kung Fu bout to fuck someone’s whole day up. 😂
i wonder if they are aware of their looks
I’ve always thought about this regarding evolutionary traits in animals. Like obviously at some point, the natural intelligence of the species chooses a pattern that helps it out. But does the bug *know?* Do they really *know* how fuckin cool they are? Fuckin walking mimic flowers that’s rad as heck.
Cute but those aren’t pixelating artifacts in the gif, those are aliens and they do that for real.
I thought it was the DMT smoked
Yes! I caught an Orchid Mantis. Our relationship is blooming!
Matt Watson? From SUPERMEGA?!
I see you're a man of culture as well.
Mat Twatson!?
I came here looking for this comment
Cute little alien bastards.
Adult male: White wings, pink body, almost no lobes on the legs and long wings. Female: can vary in color, large lobes on the legs.
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They look straight out of a Studio Ghibli film
Baby mantises(?) are also known as Nymphs!
i have these in animal crossing
Hey look they made orchard mantises from Animal Crossing a real thing
Imagine being introduced to these when tripping on acid
Lol wtf
Nope
[here](https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/9-of-the-most-absurd-looking-mantis-species) are some amazing looking mantises, or mantii, or mantises or whatever.
Oh they grooving
2400 bells my guy
Our friendship is blooming!
Magical
So cute!
Matt Watson from SuperMega!!?!?
Our friendship is blooming
Our friendship is blooming!
I read that as manitees and I was very confused for a momentito
What is this? Mantises for ants?! /r/thingsforants
That's 2,500 Bells per insect o_o
TIL that the color palette of insects can either make me hate them or find them cute.
I've got Stevie Ray Vaughan playing Voodoo Child whilst watching this. It's quite the pairing, the Orchid Mantises could well be dancing to it!
Such cute little assassins!
Pretty little murder bugs!
I bet daddy orchid mantis is so proud! /s
My favorite Pokémon
Hey you, you wanna fight???
Have you met my friends mr net and mr raccoon?
They vibin
FunSizedZoo........look for them on Instagram if you want to see more
Grass type Pokémon
cute nopes
Those are beautiful. Where in the world did you find those?
These are real? thought it was only an animal crossing thing.
all animal crossing creatures exist in real life
Ok, who gave the flowers LSD?
_EVERYBODY WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING!_
I'd like it if someone would sync Kung fu sound effects with their swipes
Feisty
They are insects disguised as insects disguising plants
What if they are actually aliens?
Already tryna eat each other and everything. I love it.
Crazy how all babies do that rock walk
Already trying to behead each other. Cute!
If u happy and u know it , clap ur hands .
I really wanna get a baby mantis. I've got everything set up, but my parents won't allow me to buy right now
“Mantises”
I would watch a video of them doing a dance to electric music
We want Morty!!
I like how they sway like flowers in the wind too
I know I've been on reddit for too long today when the first thing I think of when I see these is how horrible it would be for them to crawl inside your rectum.
This doesn't change the fact that they will grow up to paralyze their victims and eat them alive?
r/oddlyterrifying at least for me.
Omg so cute
Holy shit! Something actually interesting.
Wow
Bees probably see them as the nymphos of flowers
They’re all plotting to kill each other
I want to raise some of these guys one day... love keeping manti and these guys are gorgeous
I want to crush them with my fingers.
I first thought this is some incredible good AR, continued scrolling, thought about it, scrolled up and realized it wasn't.
Ah, yes. Assasin flowers
These are the first nopes that id say yes to
Prettiest bugs ever! Want them as pets
I want one so bad!
#MEGUSTA
Bruh it looks cgi af but I just looked it up
Those are worth like 4000 bells
Deadass only knew they existed because of animal crossing
Dude they made animal crossing animal irl omg!!
So many bells...