Mantis @ work

A customer came into the shop yesterday with one of these a plant she was buying... So I took it off her to keep it at the garden centre!

He's a New Zealand Praying Mantis, and is good to have around as they eat lots of insects people don't want in their gardens like aphids and even wasps... I actually saw a mantis eat a wasp a few years ago at work, it was pretty cool cause the wasp was trying to sting the mantis as it was being eaten!