F*ck wasps!

[Brian37]

But to give you an even better story to laugh at me Boru,

Never fuck with a preying mantis. 

Back when I was a kid, I didn't know shit about life or nature. But one day, I see a preying mantis on one of the bushes in my front yard. I was fascinated by it, and wanted to pick it up like a pet. It wanted nothing to do with that. It struck my fingers with its fangs and leg spikes on my hand like a ninja on warp drive. I dropped it like a hot potato, and never fucked with one again.

I’m not laughing at you. It’s actually very common for kids to pick up a cool-looking bug and immediately regret it (it happens most often with stinging caterpillars).

And it’s ‘praying’, not ‘preying’.

Boru

Pedantic however true.

But skip the religious nickname to it. It wasn't praying to anything, that insect was laying in wait, which makes "preying" far more accurate. The fact that religious nuts thought it looked like it was "praying" to a god, is absurd. If it isn't called a "preying mantis" it sure as Darwin should be.