It is, perhaps, 6 months since I saw a preying mantis in my yard, and so I was delighted to find this small green one when I went out the front door, the second one in three days. It flew off before I could relocate it to the back garden. This is disturbing. What’s going on in addition to pesticide usage? I read Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ in the late ‘60’s, while still a boy, and she foretold what we have an ominous taste of these days.