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Household Hints & Help

cyclonefence

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4. When I was a little girl

Reply to Backseat Driver (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 9, 2023, 11:19 AM

Sep 2023

our elementary school had cloakrooms in each classroom, where we hung our coats and put lunches etc.

One day I brought in a praying mantis egg case I'd found (probably 2nd grade or so) and after it got passed around, the teacher put it on a shelf in the cloakroom.

That spring, lots of screams as all our coats and jackets were infested with baby mantises!

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This was the closest to an appropriate place to put this [View all] cyclonefence Sep 2023 OP

if you are happy to live life according to the whims of spiders, it's all good nt msongs Sep 2023 #1

Our household policy: If they stay on the ceiling--okay; on the wall or floor--fair game! Backseat Driver Sep 2023 #2

When I was a little girl cyclonefence Sep 2023 #4

I never hurt a spider NJCher Sep 2023 #3