I've noticed these things hanging around on the walls of our house in the morning and am a little bit freaked out. After all, they do resemble the infamous Preying Mantis and therefore strike fear into me; not to mention inspiring dreams of being devoured from the bottom up by a particularly amorous female that refused to believe that I wasn't actually of the same species. Of course, in my dream I also afraid of not being considered worthy of being devoured by an amorous female and therein lies a clue to my psyche.
Anyway, I don't think they are actually Preying Mantis' but a distant, slightly less formidable, relative. They could also be Preying Mantis Imposters - an insect that makes itself look like a Preying Mantis such that it can strike fear into other insects that might not be feeling up to being devoured by amorous females today. I'm just not sure. Unfortunately I'm not feeling brave enough to go and ask as I don't know how to tell the difference between a male or a female.
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