# Doper Botanists : Front and Center! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-botanists-front-and-center/307308 "2005-06-07T16:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-botanists-front-and-center/307308/61 "2005-06-27T14:23:49Z")
After I converted the pictures on my computer to resize them for publication, and saw the horrid quality, I did go back out and try to spot him - no luck as of yet. He looks much as one expects a mantis to look… except 1/8th his size. Mini-Mantis. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-botanists-front-and-center/307308/62 "2005-06-27T19:14:00Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > No one is as amused by the tiny mantis as I? > > Such tiny thoughts he must have… What you saw was a baby mantis. They are neat little things, aren’t they? When my husband was a kid, a teacher took away a praying mantis egg sac, convinced that what he really had was a stick. Boy, was she surprised, and apologetic when they hatched over Spring Break. (She still tells the tale to her students, my husband’s brother teased him that he was a celebrity when she told his class about it.) Recently, we had to relocate another mantis egg sac, it was on our window frame beside our bed. I teased my husband that it was because he was adored by all praying manti, and they only wanted to be near him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-botanists-front-and-center/307308.md?page=3)