Hi Art,

Way back when...when I collected insects, i remember the bugget you
describe...had one in my collection. Fore (hah hah!) the life of me, all I
can come up with is "mantispid"...can't recall the proper family (probably
Mantispidae, or some such...lol). Unfortunately, I traded all my insect
literature for landsnail literature (go figure!), so am unable to provide
more than that...

Ken


Art Weil wrote:

> Dear All;-
>     OK, so it isn't a mollusk! I was golfing (badly) and noticed a bug
> on the ball-washer. I thought it was a wasp, hornet, etc., that size
> anyway. But it was the wrong color. It was a brownish red all over. So I
> looked closer. It had wings and the rear did look waspish. But the front
> looked like a tiny mantis, mannerisms and all. Just wrong size and
> color. The head was mantis-liked and moved. and the forefeet (or
> whatever they're called) were in that praying position. Any ideas out
> there? I sure never saw anything like it before.
>         Art