A blessing indeed. I love seeing them in my garden. It never ceases to amaze me how intelligent they are. I've handled lots of bugs in my day but the mantis is the only one I've ever encountered that actually looked at me as much as looked at it. Does that make sense? And it's so sweet how they reach out their "arms" to climb onto my hand.☺️ When cutting the grass I'll stop the lawnmower just to move them out of harm's way. A neighbor of mine sees them in her yard a lot too, but she has cats that like to "play" with them😮 so last season, after I told her how much I like them, she started rescuing them from her yard and putting them in mine 😊. It's the simple things in life 💗