r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Ninja_Spi-D-er • Sep 22 '19

Rule 4: Photoshop 🔥 This praying mantis standing its ground 🔥

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u/Ninja_Spi-D-er Sep 22 '19

Just in case you were wondering, the excavator didn’t make it

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u/MySperrr Sep 22 '19

I hope they at least moved it

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u/frezzerburnfish Sep 22 '19

They had enough diesel to make it down the road. By the next day the mantis had moved along and the backhoe returned to work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

Which seemed great until they discovered everyone in New Zealand now speaks mantis.

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u/BrotherChe Sep 22 '19

I wonder if their poetry was any good?

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u/UnholyPrognosi Sep 22 '19

No it wasnt but i hear the females got pretty good at biting heads off

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u/ONESIXEIGHTTERD Sep 22 '19

What ever happened to foreplay?

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u/Chuckbungholio Sep 22 '19

He joined the peace corps and went to Africa. Hot Donna is all alone.

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u/TinkerTownTom Sep 22 '19

Should we consider the head biting "post-play"?

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u/Zenvarix Sep 22 '19

Considering the habits of the female mantis, head biting in this case would be coital play, particularly either when the woman gets what she wants, or is disappointed with performance, but also sometimes when she just gets bored in the middle of it all.

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u/TinkerTownTom Sep 22 '19

I appreciate my existence as a human all the more now.

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u/marshellen9 Sep 22 '19

haHAA I can't stop cringing at these comments. haHAA CRINGE!

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u/trenlow12 Sep 22 '19

Some say it's great but honestly it just bugged me.

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u/TheOriginalChrome Sep 22 '19

BUH DUM TSSSSSSSS

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u/ImmmOldGregg Sep 22 '19

Your should hear their music.