Visitor to the shed door

[Blackfoot58]

I’ve been seeing a praying mantis once in awhile, but this is my first walking stick of the season. His camo doesn’t work so good on a white door.

 

[tamrock]

I saw one walking along in my garage one time, so I guess they can be found around here. My dad took courses in entomology at Iowa State long ago. Odd subject for a man who had no love of bugs, but it landed him a career at companies like Monsanto, where he traveled the world in the pursuit of bug destruction with pesticides. He had a lot of interesting literature and wall charts hanging in his office with wonderful images of insects that were out to steal mankind's food sources. I have most my life been interested in insects, but I'm not above the idea that some must go.

 

[Blackfoot58]

I saw one walking along in my garage one time, so I guess they can be found around here. My dad took courses in entomology at Iowa State long ago. Odd subject for a man who had no love of bugs, but it landed him a career at companies like Monsanto, where he traveled the world in the pursuit of bug destruction with pesticides. He had a lot of interesting literature and wall charts hanging in his office with wonderful images of insects that were out to steal mankind's food sources. I have most my life been interested in insects, but I'm not above the idea that some must go.

Did he work at the Muscatine Monsanto plant?

 

[tamrock]

Did he work at the Muscatine Monsanto plant?

He worked out of home in Ankeny Iowa. He traveled often.

 

[Sandog]

Good eye. I probably would have missed that one. Nice photo.