Well, I just learned that my husband and canine (two separate entities) met a mantis earlier today, hanging out somewhere in the now mostly fallen fennel stalks! Just spent time looking, but didn’t see any mantises about. So much stuff quietly going on in a garden, so many little systems operating, ants farming whitefly larvae on leaves, creatures nomming fruit at night, mantids finding comfort in cool debris… #insectodon #bugs #mantis #gardenLife #outdoors #creatures #quietThings