Agronesia

When I was having a walk yesterday morning, I found this praying mantis:

She didn’t try to run when I took him up. Closer examination revealed that both of her eyes seemed to be damaged. She was injured and probably blind. A disease? Poor little thing.

So, rather than let her have a tragic face of being crushed by mechanical whatnots, I took her home. I just let her stand on my hands along the way. After photographing her, I put her on a bush on my back yard.

Fly. They’re gross creatures that are disease vectors. So, today I found this big type in my room trying to go outside but blocked by a near transparent window. It just buzzed and bumped itself into the window endlessly, as if hoping its superfly strength can break the thick glass.

The noise bothered me. And as mentioned, they are disease carrying agents that probably are too simple to have self awareness. Killing seems to be, as cruel as it sounds, justified.

So I took an A4 paper and folded it into an adhoc weapon. Then I stealthily approached the thing and… Well, actually I needn’t be too sneaky since that creature is too obsessed with the dazzling sunlight outside… and anyway I whammed! It still moved. Wham! Wham!

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