When I was growing up, we had a few trees in the yard of one of the houses we lived in, and sometimes there would be a praying mantis or two on one of the limbs or branches of those trees. Two of my brothers would pick the insects up and start chasing me and my sister around the house with them.
I remember that these insects were not only green in color, but some of them were brown. They all looked the same though, regardless of what color they were. I've always thought that praying mantises were creepy yet interesting creatures.
