Mantis Prime: A Praying Mantis’ Perspective on the 2025 Furbutt

What’s With All the Cowbell?

I was just minding my own business in my actual backyard and I wandered into a stinky cesspool of excessively loud and spirited humans.

Keep in mind I was not looking for cowbell or furbutts, I was just praying for a male mantis to spend some “time” with and then gobble up their head like I do (because I am a praying mantis and this is how I roll).

Although there is a very small part of me (and I am very small so this is seriously miniscule) that appreciates cowbell, they REALLY love their cowbell. I mean every hour, people… really?!?

Don’t even get me started on the smell. These cowbell-lovers are seriously stinky.

The other thing I learned is that they love watermelon, because I think they all ate their weight in watermelon. And there had to be something magical going on with the ice, because they kept shoving it into their hats, bandanas, arm sleeves and really anywhere else they could find.

I had to know what was going on with the ice, so I chose a cooler as my home for the night. I took a couple rides as a lovely volunteer decided to carry my new cooler home from one end of the pavilion to the other but this was now my HOME for real and I refused to give it up.

Until I got evicted and they dumped me back in the field. It was great fun while it lasted, I would recommend the Furbutt to any of my fellow Orthoptera.