It has been in my garden for quite sometime, sheltering in that spot and become comfortable in camouflage and only comes out for shower every morning while I water my flowers.
Highlighting the facts of praying mantis, it's quite strange, how unfair for the male praying mantis to sacrifice his life in the hands of the female praying mantis while mating. And all because of love and for future praying mantis that will continue to repeat the cycle.
Maybe that's why her hands always up praying for the love she killed?
Bellow I pasted a beautiful poem of Praying Mantis written by Sandra M. Haight.
Oh, praying mantis, there with majesty,
you hold your slender arms so still and sweet,
in prayer like form that somehow makes us see
a kind and gentle species when we greet.
Your odd, triangle face responds your way
by nodding side to side, as if you hear
and grasp the words we speak and so convey
to be beside you does not carry fear.
But, in the world you live and to survive
another side of you is seen, exists.
A murderer you are...eat your mate live;
your coupling ritual exhibits twists.
Your mate is lucky to have found a chance
to spread his genes, his only goal in life;
to offer up his body in this dance...
a trade-off for his offspring to be rife.
With head gone first, he still completes his act
depositing his precious sperm; when done
you throw him to the ground and after that
soon feed on him to nourish life begun.
Oh, praying mantis, there with majesty
you hold your slender arms as if in prayer.
But looks so often can deceive, you see;
a murderer you are...his fate, unfair.
Sandra M. Haight
The Insect of Praying mantis symbolizes a story that passed down from generation to generation, every culture has their own version to it.
From signifying the couragement, fearlessness, calming mind, martial art, spiritual things, to horror of cannibalism based on their habitual eating of their mate.
In the end, we have our own judgement for our path in life to always be with GOD in everything we do.
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