Christmas Tree Causes Praying Mantis Infestation In Virginia Home

Bah! Humbug! A Virginia girl’s Christmas tree left her a present that retains on giving ― however not in a great way.

Springfield veterinarian Molly Kreuze is bugged that greater than 100 praying mantises have infested her house after hatching from an egg case hidden in her Christmas tree.

“Crawling on the walls, crawling on the ceilings. Just kind of moving,” she griped to DC station WJLA TV. 

It’s attainable the mantises at the moment are praying in her bed room, however that’s a situation she doesn’t need to contemplate.

“I don’t want to think about that. It’s possible, but I don’t want to know,” she stated, based on ABC News.

Although some individuals would possibly merely vacuum up the bugs, Kreuze is making an attempt to keep away from that, preferring to scoop them up with an envelope and retailer them in a shoe field.

She is feeding fruit flies to her undesirable vacation company whereas she tries to seek out them new properties.

“In my googling, I discovered people really like praying mantises,” she instructed WJLA. “They are useful, they eat other bugs, people use them for organic gardening.”

Still, the infestation has impressed her to get a synthetic tree for subsequent Christmas.

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