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Here I must be serious and say that I believe there is a "cosmic dock", that is, an exact right moment for some happenings, and the moment 1 pushed open that matchbox surely was just such a moment. First I screamed and dropped the matchbox on the table, then 1 stood transfixed as 1 watched. Out of that tiny space came the first few transparent, spindly, longnecked, bug-eyed THINGS followed by dozens and dozens more of the same. They unfolded and expanded like milkweed floss released from the pod or like clones < off an assembly line. They . spilled out, stretched their . legs, and struck out in every j direction in the living room. | As soon as I could overcome I my paralysis, 1 slammed the box shut. (I’m still haunted ) by the sight of little legs ' caught in the crack.) I
When my husband came \ to lunch, I showed him the , sizable congregation of j Praying Mantises still in the box and we went about the queezy task of picking up es- i capees off the furniture. We i placed them in the flower < boxes where they could con- I tinue their services without i further interruption. t
After that experience, i we didn’t need VPI to iden- i tify the Praying Mantis etrtr i
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