Hi, guys! I’m participating in my sister Megan’s fun photo contest, BIBPC. (Read about it here.) The second prompt was “critters,” meaning animals like insects, frogs, etc. I collected several fun critter photos, but I can only enter one. 😦 😉 So I decided to show you the one I’m entering, and the other ones I wish I could enter too! 😀
I’m entering the first of these pictures, and the second one is just a bonus. 🙂
Isn’t it neat? And super gross?! XD
Story behind the picture: I took this photo a couple of years ago in September 2014. These particular pictures are actually still photos from a video I took. (You can see it here on my YouTube channel. I’m afraid the video is a bit jerky. Hold on tight! 😛 ) One day right outside our porch I saw this amazing and gross scene on one of our chrysanthemum bushes: a praying mantis was sitting there, calmly eating a bumblebee! I was so excited to get to see that! It seems like the bee would have killed the praying mantis first by stinging it, but apparently not.
So, Megan, since I have two critters in the picture I get double the points, right? No? Aww, shucks. XD
Now here are the ‘reject’ pictures. Poor lil’ guys. Don’t worry, I like you too! 😀
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Spring peeper: so cute and tiny!
Cicada (from this post)
Honeybees (from this post)
And I believe this is a bullfrog. I was almost going to enter him in, but I thought maybe a frog was too normal. (More normal than a praying mantis eating a bumblebee anyway. 🙂 )
His eyes were so pretty!
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Which picture was your favorite?
***Allison***
Allison Marie 
Wow! That is so cool and gross! XD I love praying mantises! (Is that even a word? 😛 )
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The picture of the cicada is awesome. 😀 I wanted to find a snake for my BIBPC picture, but I couldn’t.
-Clara ❤
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Thanks, Clara! Oh yeah, a snake would have been impressive – but maybe kind of gross too. XD
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Hehe! I agree. 😛
-Clara ❤
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Grody Dude! xD xD XD Hahaha! 🙂 I liked it! All of those were neat! 😀 🙂
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XD What in the world do you mean by “Grody Dude”? XD XD Thanks, K. A.!
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XD sorry, I thought you knew what that meant. Like Groady is like Gross. XD And dude…just something I say sometimes! So like ‘Gross, Man’ XD Ish! 😛
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Okay. That’s what I thought. XD XD
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XD
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Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??
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Ooh! So cool! And gross too…haha! XD Oh, did I tell you? I have a WordPress blog now! (https://theupstairsgirl.wordpress.com/) I ❤ WordPress and I'm so excited to start blogging on it! 😀 I'll also be posting my Wordcrafters chapter on it. 😀 Oh, and I've got a confession to make: Just last Thursday, I realized it was titled Wordcrafters! I always thought it was Woodcrafters, haha! XD 😛
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Thanks, Grace! Ooh, yay, you’re joining WordPress! I’ll check out your blog for sure. 🙂 Haha, that’s funny about “WoodCrafters”! XD Well, at least you know now. XD
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You’re welcome! Yay! 🙂 Thanks!
I know! I always looked at it and though it was “Woodcrafters” and I was like, who would name something “Woodcrafters? Huh, oh well…” LOL! XD
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Yeah, I would be wondering that too… XD
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Haha! XD
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Wow, all these pictures are really cool! The praying mantis one is the most unusual, though. 😉 I really like the pictures of the bees and the frog, though, too. 🙂
~Christian Homeschooler
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Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked them. 🙂
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I had such a hard time with this…you would have guessed that I live in the city! 🙂 I love that picture, it’s really neat. and gross, but you can’t have it all, can ya? I haven’t seen ANY frogs on our property. Not that I’m looking for them, but I found out that once you start LOOKING for bugs, they’re impossible to find.
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Thanks! Yep. 🙂 Hmm… maybe you should just walk around looking up at the sky and say, “I’m not looking for bugs,” and then maybe they’ll come swarming. XD
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Ooh! That might just work 😉
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Yeah, of course it will! XD 😀 😉
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WOW!!!! That is so cool! I love the frog’s eye
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Thank you! Me too!
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I love the pictures!
kaitlynrh1
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Thank you very much!
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Whoa, that is a giant bullfrog!!! He’s really pretty! Great pictures Allison!!
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Yeah, I know! He was really big and pretty! Thanks! 😀
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