Depressing

Well, I feel kinda silly for posting about this, but I need to write it down so I can concentrate on my work. About a year ago, we found a praying mantis in our back yard and kept it in a terrarium so it could survive the winter. While we had it, it laid eggs.
It eventually died, and my mom said that it's eggs would never hatch. The rest of my family and I believed her and we paid no attention to the terrarium until now, while cleaning. My little brother found a grasshopper and i suppose we're going to keep it like we did with the mantis last year. However, when he picked up the terrarium, it was littered with tiny little mantis exoskeletons.

I find it extremely depressing that we basically killed off all the mantis' offspring because of my mother's conviction that it was a lost cause. I vow not to let that happen with the grasshopper.

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