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ost_uid0]Ah, strange pets...When I was seven or eight, I had a praying mantis as a pet. I kept it in a box and fed it crickets, grasshoppers and butterflies. I used to collect butterflies, and the ones I considered not pretty enough to put in my collection, I just fed to the mantis. It devoured them... there were only a few little pieces of wings left in the box... ![]() And when the mantis died, I buried it... and a year later, a big pink apartment building was built exactly on the site of its grave. It is now officially the insect with the most impressive tombstone monument ever, ![]() Zeke, are you sure you didn`t have a mantis too? It is a ferocious insect, believe me, and many people easily mistake it for an ordinary cricket or grasshopper... My butterfly collection is still here and intact, by the way... they`re all pinned with needles on the cardboard, 20 or so of them, and displayed on the shelf in my living room... they are not pickled, but surprisingly they haven`t decomposed at all after 13 years...[/color ost_uid0]
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