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A Praying Mantis appeared on the house wall:

The next morning found it huddled against the cold:

It had reached operating temperature and gone about its business a few hours later.

I deployed a cardboard Mantis in its honor as a seasonally appropriate yard decoration, but mine didn’t survive the night nearly as well as the real one:

I doubt a predator was involved …

A site search will reveal previous encounters with their kind.