Tuesday, September 05, 2006

This Can’t Be Love

Across the eastern United States, a gruesome ritual is in full swing. The praying mantis and its relative, the Chinese mantis, are in their courtship season. A male mantis approaches a female, flapping his wings and swaying his abdomen. Leaping on her back, he begins to mate. And quite often, she tears off his head.

The female mantis devours the head of the still-mating male and then moves on to the rest of his body.

Just imagine the situation, the male mantis comes home and says "Honey I am ho--....", his head is ripped off...

Moral : Be careful of the female species....... :-)

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