Our New Pet…by Caleb, 10

We have another animal!  Can you guess what it is?  It’s a praying mantis! 

I found it on our van yesterday, and we caught it.  We put it in our butterfly cage, and caught some bugs for it.  We even got to see it eat a moth!  It ate it with the moth’s body in its claw and just munched away.   Then today we saw it catch another moth.

Percy (what we’ve named him) twists and turns like a contortionist!  We muse that it might be to crack his exoskeleton or to get exercise.  We don’t know if he is a male or a female, and if he’s a male I don’t want to let him go or his mate might eat him!  :x

We had another one a few years ago, named Pete, so we knew what to catch for his food.

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