My first stop was to one of my all-time favorites, the caterpillars. Unfortunately you can not touch most of them since they can be poisonous, but they can be surprisingly pretty! One of my personal favorites was the rose slug caterpillar. I thought it was amazing how an insect can adapt to have the spines on their back like how the rose slug has its. It also had a pretty blue pattern down its …show more content…
Praying mantises are found all over the planet and in my opinion are some of the most diverse and fantastic looking insects. They are also harmless to people, and can actually be quite good farming partners since they eat the pests! Of all the mantises, my favorite would have to be the orchid mantis. This mantis imitates a flower with its body, and it is quite a shocking resemblance when its wings are spread. To get a feel for how all these mantises are different, one would truly have to come to the fair. It is as if you could custom build your own. They come in every color and have all different types of attributes. Some are tall, some are long. Some have skinny, smooth bodies. Some have wide and rough bodies. And there are all kinds of mantises to fill up in between the