| Show J Praying Mantis antis Seeking Seeping Bugs Mr 11 and Mrs Frank Field of 1711 South West were being run over-run with earwigs and other pesky insects as the rest of the world but realizing the dangers of in insecticides insecticides insecticides in- in to the lady bug honey bee dragon fly and other helpful insects figured another way to help the ecology ecology ecology ogy of their back yard LAST WINTER Julia sent back for two Praying Mantis and Frank secured them to limbs near their kitchen window where they could easily be observed Mid May the Fields' Fields first batch of babies began emerging emerging emerging ing from their birth Tiny heads poked through the cacoon cacoon cacoon ca- ca coon then one by one the mantis at the top crept out outto outto outto to greet the world followed in turn by his brothers from top to bottom until the entire entire entire en en- tire batch of about four hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred babies emerged THE PRAYING Mantis is the most helpful of all in insects insects insects in- in sects and never eats plants vegetables or Bowers After he is born he very seldom leaves his birthplace The mortality rate is so high among the Mantis in our locality that the Fields thought they would play it safe and order two just in incase incase incase case one of them froze Well neither froze now the Fields want to know what they are going to do where they are going to sit how they are going to walk with eight hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred Praying Mantis lantis in their yard dp |
