My ex told a story about a beagle vs a praying mantis. The mantis flew in through the window. That beagle was very interested. It ended up with two rows of tiny puncture marks with tiny blood drops on its nose. The mantis had whacked doggy with its forearms on the nose. Mantis 1, beagle 0.DH and I went on a lunch hour walk with Beagle, and I mentioned that I had not seen a praying mantis all summer. As we were walking the home stretch, DH spotted a praying mantis on the road! It initially looked like a dead rolled-up leaf with legs, and was at least four inches long. When it crawled into the grass and leaf litter, we couldn't even tell it was there. Beagle thought it looked like a nice snack, but we dragged her away. This one was brown, I usually see green ones.