#Di Mantid

[sw5w]

You Want to Go Home and Rethink Your Life

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:23:01 - 00:23:02

As Immi Thrax points out on Bluesky, one of the sources for identification of drinks at the Outlander, How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills, may not be entirely accurate.

Toniray wine, which here is labeled as the reddish beverage that Elan Sel'Sabagno drinks, is actually described in Bloodline by Claudia Gray as being teal in color. The Toniray you can buy at Oga's Cantina at Galaxy's Edge also supports this, as it too is teal in color.

Immi also noted that several other drinks in the How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks... diagram don't match their descriptions in other sources:

• Starfire 'Skee, shown in the diagram as a dark blue color, is described in Aftermath by Chuck Wendig as being "brown and muddy".

• Port in a Storm, shown in the diagram as yellowish-orange in color, is described in Bloodline as being "reddish amber" (maybe better matching the tube labeled as Trandoshan ale or even Corellian Red).

Listing of callouts for search purposes:

• Agira Nyrat • Artuo Pratuhr • Civ Sila • Dannl Faytonni • Daro Willits • Di Mantid • Elan Sel'Sabagno, aka Elan Sleazebaggano • Immi Danoo • Joshua Jinzler • Kalyn Farnmir • Obi-Wan Kenobi • Onyeth Canavar • Reina March • Rosha Vess • Whimper Save • Zey Nep

• Unidentified Humans

• Alderaan • Core Worlds • Jedi mind trick • Toniray wine

• Unidentified beverages

[tripleratskill]

!!!!!! BUG GUY HERE i have two mantids it couldve been! the description you gave sounds more like a golden praying mantis (hierodula venosa) --

-- with my one thing being these fellas are native to areas like malaysia and thailand, and i cant find any data on them being in ukraine; doesn't make it impossible though! and also i just realized i assumed you live in ukraine when you very well might not LMAO. in terms of mantids i could find that are native to areas around ukraine, there's iris polystictica --

-- which arent very yellow so i assume it wasn't one of em, but still pretty!! hope you dont mind the bugs :)

I did NOT expect that

I cant really confirm or deny if venosa is the one, but considering it's area and just it kinda looks like the one I saw was chonkier lol it's unlikely correct, though the general size from what I could find seems close enough

I'll take it as an interesting little guy

And definitely not the second one, cause yeah, too pale, and too small as well but that's a dope mantis anyway!

On my own little search found some cool ones, first of all SMOL

Second of all, yes I do live in Ukraine and when I looked up native mantids I found this beauty??(Empusa fasciata) Holy shit why so fancy

(Also cackled over a name of ameles taurica which is for some reason is called crimean little mantis, or like, cute mantis? Why, why did you need to emphasize it's goofiness in its name? There is probably a reason behind it but I did not look into it, that's a discovery for another time)

If I match with a specific area where I live and, and with that, where I found it, only two ones match up, which are your aforementioned Iris polystictica and also a common/european mantis.

Really the best guess is that it is a european mantis, cause I found some info on them having yellow coloring on them. Or we can go batshit insane and say it was a european mantis with xanthochromism, thank you for sending this ask, it was fun

[chiamamiely]

Sono ormai quattro giorni che questa bellissima mantide prega attaccata alla vetrina del negozio in cui lavoro. Ora le cose sono due: o mi supplica di concederle due fette di mortadella o cerca indulgenza per le sue efferatezze.

Mi dispiace contessa Ugolina, ma nulla posso...al massimo ti apparecchio due zanzarine, che di quelle ne ho in abbondanza.

[mantisgodsdomain]

for the ask game, ca you do the first question for kina?

Not many people talk about her so I don't really have a idea beyond just her sprite

(for this ask game)

Yes, we can! This leans on personal HCs a bit, so we will note - we are not 100% canon compliant. More specifically, we add claws back onto mantids and we tend to have bug size differences be slightly more pronounced rather than having everyone be People Sized. We'll run through.. notable features?

1. Describe your OC physically- what do they look like? What notable features do they have, or what’s your favorite part of their design?

Large mantis. Very large mantis, in fact. The pink tends to take second fiddle to size, since being a member just about the biggest species of mantis in the Ant Kingdom (Tenodera sinensis, or the Chinese Mantis), Kina's big enough for it to be notable, even if stunting from lack of food means she's a good bit smaller than an average mantis of her species, but the second thing a bug would notice would probably be the pink.

And she is pink. A salmon-y pink, but still... pink, which is a color that's not out of the range of what people expect, what with orchid mantises being a thing, but it's still notable simply because of the mantis it's attached to.

She's tall by bug standards and pretty damn well-built, she's got runner's muscle from spending her time darting across half the kingdom, but genetics mean that she tends towards more bulky muscle more than she does the sort of sleek "runner's physique" people usually associate with that. Translated to human looks, she'd have a mild version of the sort of "movie star six-pack" that gets seen as a Beauty Ideal, as her baseline is "underfed and mildly to moderately dehydrated while doing very physical work".

She's got fairly well-cared-for claws, along with a set of purple daggers she generally has sheathed on the insides of her raptorial claws in such a way that she can "flick" them out to be combar-ready at a moment's notice. Her bandanna is a gift from Maki back when they were just starting out as explorers, but the knife setup came later. Her primary eyes are purple, but she uses her simple eyes more most of the time. Squints enough that you can't really see the color most of the time. She's got a wide, wide assortment of scars and scratches on her shell, mostly from Explorer's Association jobs, but the specifics of those vary from fic to fic - our current most consistent one would be a series of grooves cut into the inner sides of her claws from when she was still getting the hang of flicking her daggers out of their sheathes.

In less words: Large, scarred, buff pink chinese mantis with daggers strapped to the insides of her claws and a bandanna tied around her neck, generally in some state of agitation or another.

[pier-carlo-universe]

"L’anno della mantide" di P.J. Mann: un thriller avvincente tra intrighi e segreti. Recensione di Alessandria today

Un romanzo che svela complotti e misteri, ambientato in una cornice di tensione e suspense.

Un romanzo che svela complotti e misteri, ambientato in una cornice di tensione e suspense. “L’anno della mantide”, scritto da P.J. Mann, è un thriller avvincente che cattura l’attenzione del lettore sin dalle prime pagine. Con una trama ricca di colpi di scena, il romanzo ci trasporta in un mondo di intrighi, segreti e giochi di potere, ambientato in un contesto urbano che fa da perfetta…

[fuckingrecipes]

Wait, which animals raise livestock?

Several species of ants will 'herd' aphids around (a type of plant lice)- even picking them up and putting them back with the group if they wander off. The ants will attack anything that approaches their aphid herds, defending them. The aphids produce a sugary excretion called honeydew, which the ants harvest and eat.

Some ants will even 'milk' the aphids, stroking the aphids with their antennae, to stimulate them to release honeydew. Some aphids have become 'domesticated' by the ants, and depend entirely on their caretaker ants to milk them.

When the host plant is depleted of resources and dies, the ants will pick up their herd of aphids and carry them to a new plant to feed on - a new 'pasture' if you will.

Some ants continue to care for aphids overwinter, when otherwise they'd die. The ants carry aphid eggs into their own nests, and will even go out of their way to destroy the eggs of aphid-predators, like ladybugs.

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Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs - have an interesting symbiosis with Tarantulas.

While the spiders could very easily kill and eat the much-tinier frogs, and DO normally prey on small frogs, young spiders instead will use their mouthparts to pick up the microhylid frogs, bring them back to their burrow, and release them unharmed.

The frog benefits from hanging out in/around the burrow of the tarantula, because the tarantula can scare away or eat predators that normally prey on tiny frogs, like snakes, geckos, and mantids. The tarantula gets a babysitter.

Microhylid frogs specialize in eating ants, and ants are one of the major predators of spider eggs. By eating ants, the frogs protect the spider's eggs. The frogs can also lay their eggs in the burrow, and won't be eaten by the spider.

So it's less 'livestock' and more like a housepet - a dog or a cat. You stop coyotes/eagles from hurting your little dog/cat, and in return the dog/cat keeps rats away from your baby.

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Damselfish grow algae on rocks and corals. They defend these gardens ferociously, and will attack anything that comes too close - even humans. They spend much of their time weeding the gardens, removing unwanted algaes that might overtake their crop.

The species of algae that they cultivate is weak and and sensitive to growing conditions, and can easily be overgrazed by other herbivores. That particular algae tends to grow poorly in areas where damselfish aren't around to protect and farm it.

Damselfish will ALSO actively protect Mysidium integrum (little shrimp-like crustacians) in their reef farms, despite eating other similarly sized invertebrates. The mysids are filter feeders, who feed on zooplankton and free-floating algae, and their waste fertilizes the algae farms. Many types of zooplankton can feed on the algae crop, and the mysids prevent that.

While Mysids can be found around the world, the only place you'll find swarms of Musidium integrum is on the algae farms that Damselfish cultivate.

Damselfish treat the little mysids like some homesteaders treat ducks. Ducks eat snails and other insect pests on our crops, and their poop fertilizes the land. The ducks can be eaten, but aren't often, since they're more useful for their services than their meat.

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There are SEVERAL species of insect and animal which actively farm. They perform fungiculture and horticulture: deliberately growing and harvesting fungus and plants at a large-scale to feed their population.

Leaf-cutter ants and Termites both chew up plant material and then seed it with a specific type of fungus. The fungus grows, and the termites/ants harvest the mushroom as a food source.

Ambrosia beetles burrow into decaying trees, hollow out little farming rooms, and introduce a specific fungii (the ambrosia fungi), which both adults and larval beetles feed on.

Marsh Periwinkles (a type of snail) cultivates fungus on cordgrass. They wound the plant with their scraping tongue, then defecate into the wound so their preferred fungus will infect it and grow there. They let the fungus grow in the wound a bit, and come back later to eat.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You know, it’s funny.

I watch a lot of Kids Cartoons, because I have a Kid and I like hanging out with him. Cartoon animals are fairly common. They are often portrayed with familiar, human family units: a mom, a dad, a baby, maybe siblings.

It’s too bad.

The Human Family is special.

Mantids are born alone. The species that live near me cannot survive the frosts of winter, so as the days shorten and the world becomes inhospitable to them, they provision for the future by laying eggs in protective cases in places unlikely to freeze. When the days lengthen again, the babies emerge. And so. All Mantids are Orphans.

Much of Life on Earth is like this. Not just Bugs.

Most of the life on Earth is photosynthetic. Over half, by both species count and biomass. Trees and grasses and ferns and algae do not need to move, not quickly, not in a coordinated way. So they never learned to perceive their surroundings. If you cannot perceive, you cannot be attracted or repulsed; you cannot Love. Trees may nourish each other through The Great Mycorrhizae, but this is mediated by the Fungus, not the Tree.

Merlin and Dorado. Annelid and Isopod. Orphans.

An infant deer can walk within minutes of life if need be. An infant wasp may feed upon its siblings. The infant octopus’s first meal may be its mother’s corpse.

The Human infant is pulled into the world by hands. Hands that care. The Human infant is helpless, for years, requiring not only a single adult of its species but an entire village to be said to be “raised properly.” The Unloved child DIES

Love is what defines Humans. Domestication is not like Colonialism or Slavery; to Domesticate a Plant or an Animal or a Fungus, you must Love it. You must Love it for generations, handing your Love down to your descendants. Caring for the beasts and plants, feeding and sheltering them, helping them find mates. To Domesticate a species is to crown yourself their God, and I will tell you now that the noble Aurochs and the mighty Boar felt blessed by our Love, and that when Cows & Pigs are raised properly by farmers (who are not themselves property of Conglomerated Business Interests,) that the relationship between the Farmer & their Animals is one built from Love.

We are. So special for this.

It is a form of madness, after all. To see the Self in the Other. Or perhaps a divine insight. Those are hard to distinguish.

[kon-igi]

Io ADORO quando fanno i thumbnail di youtube con l'AI...

Io ESIGO di conoscere con esattezza la descrizione fatta per ogni attrezzo.

'Rappresenta un attrezzo per tagliare la legna pensando a una mantide religiosa che voglia decapitarsi da sola' 'Mostra una pistola termica sbolla-vernice che possa essere usata per rimuovere il rivestimento dell'ISS ma anche come Rail Gun Instagib in un deathmatch di Unreal 1999' 'Metti assieme tutte le Nail Gun di ogni sparatutto in prima persona da Doom in poi, rendendo impossibile capire come si carica, da dove escono i chiodi e se serve per spararti da solo nella pancia' 'Smonta una motosega e incollaci con l'attack la testa di un'ascia di alluminio e l'alettone di un TIE Fighter di Guerre Stellari'

Questo è il futuro che voglio ❤

[raccontidialiantis]

Desiderio di vedova

D'improvviso. S'era ritrovata giovane e sola, con due figli piccoli. Ma era una donna stupenda: fine, bellissima, colta e molto intelligente. Aveva un buon lavoro, grazie al cielo e si manteneva dignitosamente. L'equilibrio era perfetto. Sin quando dopo qualche mese non iniziò a vedere e finalmente ad amare un uomo bellissimo e corretto che, seppur sposatissimo, la voleva solo per sé. Lei acconsentì alla sua corte. Ma in assoluta discrezione lei non avrebbe mai saputo rinunciare al sesso forte e scorretto che routinariamente già faceva in segreto con i due mariti delle due sue più care amiche. Per giunta... ciascuno ignaro dell'altro! S'erano entrambi subito offerti di aiutarla e consolarla, pur di potersela scopare. E lei s'era sentita in dovere di ringraziare. Gongolando dentro come una vera porca. Le era venuto spontaneo farsi fottere da tutt'e due: avrebbe saputo gestire la cosa, ne era certa.

Forse anche perché la passione di una donna sola s'aggrappa immediatamente a qualsiasi gentilezza, a un gesto cortese. A un aiuto che poi, si sa: magari non è proprio disinteressato. Erano diventati tutt'e due pazzi d'amore per lei e non sospettavano di non avere l'esclusiva di quella femmina: meravigliosa, calda e sessualmente vorace. Quello con loro, comunque, per lei era solo sesso. Essendo però da poco entrato in gioco l'amore per un nuovo arrivato, il suo cuore e la sua passera dovettero decidere. Allora, semplicemente e senza scrupoli, da due gli amanti segreti... divennero tre. Uno ufficiale e due occulti. E lei imparò a orhestrare il gioco della seduzione sapientemente. Era sempre tutto gestito sul filo di lana dell'erotismo più puro. Sesso sospeso e sapientemente centellinato a tutti i suoi amanti. Ora finalmente aveva l'amore puro. E anche il sesso sfrenato.

Ma di quell'ultimo arrivato in particolare era gelosissima: pretese che non facesse più sesso con sua moglie. Lui, obbediente, ormai toccava soltanto la sua pelle e pensava solo ai suoi occhi. E lei gli giurava il suo amore come esclusivo ed eterno. Anche se invece in realtà mentre scopava con lui pensava sempre più a come riuscire a prendere in corpo entrambi i cazzi dei suoi due amanti segreti. E sarebbe poi successo, nei mesi a seguire: in lacrime, tenera come un agnellino caduto in tentazione, lei ha semplicemente confessato a entrambi il suo "occasionale tradimento" e preteso infine di averli entrambi nel suo letto, quando avesse voluto. Loro due, di comune accordo, hanno infine deciso di accontentarla, invece di cedere all'ira e ricorrere alle inutili vie di fatto in quanto rivali per amore. La donna mantide è vorace, diplomatica, perfida, attraente, machiavellica, intelligentissima e infine quanto di più pericoloso ma affascinante, desiderabile possa capitare a un uomo.

RDA

[auckie]

Dude I am so sick of people’s attitudes towards wild animals. They are not domesticated they are not pets they will not be happy as pets and even if they are you are either going to be unhappy or have to deal with their impulse to breed and do what they would be doing in the wild, which is shit and tear your house up and probably bite you. If it works out. Well hey! Cool.

I’ve befriended this adorable cotton tail and been able to keep it alive, a miracle because they’re difficult, and it adores me and I love it but once I’m able I’m going to put this fucker outside around other cottontails and hope a hawk doesn’t swoop it.

And seeing as it’s so trusting, that very well may happen. Not a lot of juvenile wild rabbits make it to adulthood. The hawk gets to live and that’s fine by me. They’re not endangered and while I’m glad I could keep it alive I have severely handicapped its ability to fear, which is vital. As it gets older it may regain its original, instinctual sense of terror and anxiety, and I hope it does for its own sake. It’s the very same people who insist I put a bow on it and breast feed it and all that stupid shit who would probably fail to research where to get cecotropes and be confused when an unspayed adult female rabbit starts becoming aggressive towards them and dies early from being confined indoors, if it even makes it that far.

I mean. Even if I’ve been doing a good job it could literally drop dead any moment. Rehabbed rabbits do that constantly without warning. And it’ll be sad but that’s just the risk. I’m not a professional but I’ve had experience with squirrels and frankly while I know it’s illegal in some states, i also know that’s to prevent a lot of random people from nabbing cute baby animals and not doing any research and attempting to keep them as pets. But I also think, that like agriculture, carpentry, tailoring— they’re skills you can and should learn. It’s like in human DNA. Are you gonna be a licensed professional? No, I mean probably not. Animal husbandry is the same. Buuut, it’s alive. So you gotta respect that.

There’s an in between of the ardent scare tactics professionals use (rightfully so) to deter laymen from say, putting a brachypelma tarantula on their face. It will probably be fine to do that. I’m not recommending it bc it totally could bite you, or kick hairs into your eyes and nose. But like, it’s probably gonna be fine. But don’t it. Don’t take a baby Robin from its nest but like if you have to for whatever reason, be good to it, do your research and send it to a rehab center probably but you totally can learn to care for it. And if you do, you should be ready and willing to attempt to reintroduce it to its natural habitat. And it might die. It could at a rehab center too. It’s not a baby eagle*, but it’s a living creature that serves a niche in the food web and it’s important to try and put it back into that place even if it means it gets predated.

*sucks to assign animals like. Priority levels but you can and should step on Japanese garden beetles should you see them on your knock out rose bush. You find a dying bee yeah give it honey water or whatever. Don’t fuck with the mantids. You get the gist.

I don’t regret taking the little feller in at all but I also will not regret trying to acclimate him back into his natural habitat: my yard lol.

[omniuravity]

Well now I'm said cause Viv said those who died and went to heaven won't remember their loved ones in hell.

Which means if Alastor does somehow get to see his mother again, she won't remember him.

I think Sir Pentious is a different story since he was redeemed.

@bloodypeachblog @fatgumsurpremacy-remastered @moths-and-mantids @dynogadget

Sad shit bros.

[sw5w]

You Wanna Buy Some Death Sticks?

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:22:57

Listing of callout for search purposes:

• Agira Nyrat • Artuo Pratuhr • Bufon Taire • Civ Sila • Dannl Faytonni • Di Mantid • Elan Sel'Sabagno, aka Elan Sleazebaggano • Hat Lo • Immi Danoo • Kalyn Farnmir • Obi-Wan Kenobi • Reha Logg • Reina March • Rosha Vess • Sel Maa • Whimper Save • Zey Nep

• Unidentified Humans • Unidentified Kajain'sa'Nikto

• Balosar • Death stick • Ixetal cilona • Slythmonger • Toniray wine • University of Coruscant

• Unidentified beverage

[speaksleazy]

◜ELDRITCH ABSOLUTE SOLVER ( MURDER DRONES ) NPTs 𓂃 Requested by anonymous.◞

◜Names◞ ~ Absolute | Absolutte | Absolette, Absol, Absolver, Abby | Abbie, Vi | Virus, Levi | Leviathan, Bee | Beelzebub, Elledritche, Filistata, Tick, Lee | Leech, Tetramera, Meness, Mantisse | Mantid, Mandible | Mandibelle, Malaria, Malware, Shrapnel | Shrapnelle, Mangle | Mangelle, Deciette, Wire | Wiresse, Er | Err, Vigil | Vigelle, Cyst, Cyn | Sin, Cynthia | Sinthia, Lovecraft | Lovecrafette, Lovecraftiann | Lovecraftianne, Lucifer | Luciferror, Rend | Render, Sunder, Panopticonnie, Exctinctionne

◜Pronouns◞ ~ Sol | Solve | Solver, She | Solvher, Claw | Claws, Whir | Whirrs, Pan | Panoptic | Panopticon, Fabric | Fabrics, Para | Parasite, Leech | Leeches, Vi | Virus, E | Er | Error, [REDACT] | [REDACTED], Dis | Dissie | Disease, Pla | Plague, 404 | 404s, Ey | Eye, ? | ¿, Creepie | Crawly, Mal | Malware, Watch | Watcher, See | Seer, Vi | Vigil | Vigilant, It | Its, That | Thats, Rend | Render

◜Titles◞ ~ The ( program | virus ) deep in your blood, ( Prn ) who whirrs and ( squirms | writhes ), ( Prn ) destined to destroy the universe, The ( parasite | virus | program ) searching for a host, ( Prn ) who casts holograms of her victims, ( Prn ) whose mouth drips with ( oil | blood | gore ), ( Prn ) decietfulness, ( Prn ) of a thousand claws, The one who ( looms | lurks ) above ( you ), ( Prn ) who is reconstructing J, The absolute solver, The absolute solver of fabrics, ( Prn ) golden gaze | ( Prn ) with a golden gaze, ( Prn ) eldritch form | ( Prn ) eldritch, mechanical form, ( Prn ) of a thousand eyes, The amalgam of parts, The parasitic panopticon, ( Prn ) who leeches off ( prn ) host, ( Prn ) leeching off of you

[ PT : Eldritch Absolute Solver (Murder Drones) names, pronouns, and titles. Requested by anonymous.

Names: Absolute/Absolutte/Absolette, Absol, Absolver, Abby/Abbie, Vi/Virus, Levi/Leviathan, Bee/Beelzebub, Elledritche, Filistata, Tick, Lee/Leech, Tetramera, Meness, Mantisse/Mantid, Mandible/Mandibelle, Malaria, Malware, Shrapnel/Shrapnelle, Mangle/Mangelle, Deciette, Wire/Wiresse, Er/Err, Vigil/Vigelle, Cyst, Cyn/Sin, Cynthia/Sinthia, Lovecraft/Lovecrafette, Lovecraftiann/Lovecraftianne, Lucifer/Luciferror, Rend/Render, Sunder, Panopticonnie, Exctinctionne

Pronouns: Sol/Solve/Solver, She/Solvher, Claw/Claws, Whir/Whirrs, Pan/Panoptic/Panopticon, Fabric/Fabrics, Para/Parasite, Leech/Leeches, Vi/Virus, E/Er/Error, [REDACT]/[REDACTED], Dis/Dissie/Disease, Pla/Plague, 404/404s, Ey/Eye, ?/¿, Creepie/Crawly, Mal/Malware, Watch/Watcher, See/Seer, Vi/Vigil/Vigilant, It/Its, That/Thats, Rend/Render

Titles: The (program/virus) deep in your blood, (Pronoun) who whirrs and (squirms/writhes), (Pronoun) destined to destroy the universe, The (parasite/virus/program) searching for a host, (Pronoun) who casts holograms of her victims, (Pronouns) whose mouth drips with (oil/blood/gore), (Pronoun) decietfulness, (Pronoun) of a thousand claws, The one who (looms/lurks) above (you), (Pronoun) who is reconstructing J, The absolute solver, The absolute solver of fabrics, (Pronoun) golden gaze/(Pronoun) with a golden gaze, (Pronoun) eldritch form/(Pronoun) eldritch, mechanical form, (Pronoun) of a thousand eyes, The amalgam of parts, The parasitic panopticon, (Pronoun) who leeches off (Pronoun) host, (Pronoun) leeching off of you. End PT. ]

[omarfor-orchestra]

Per favore quanto ci ho azzeccato

Leo Adriani si molla con Beatrice ma è il 2013:

[crevicedwelling]

Had a big lady (I assume, it's about 5 inches) mantid from the garden come up to the porch to hang out this morning. I'm assuming since it's fall here in the Midwest US she's nearing the end of her life cycle but she's so pretty I couldn't not share

she’s in good shape, though! wings all clean and no holes, she’s been able to dodge birds and hornets it seems. I find Chinese mantis females persist well until the first frosts, they’re quite sturdy and continue to lay eggs long after all the males have died of old age.

[pier-carlo-universe]

Recensione di "L'Anno della Mantide" di P. J. Mann: Intrighi e Suspense nelle Strade di Roma. A cura di Pier Carlo Lava

Un caso complesso, una famiglia potente e un commissario determinato: il debutto della serie del commissario Scala tra segreti e colpi di scena.

Un caso complesso, una famiglia potente e un commissario determinato: il debutto della serie del commissario Scala tra segreti e colpi di scena. “L’Anno della Mantide” è il primo volume della serie Le indagini del commissario Scala, un avvincente thriller scritto da P. J. Mann che immerge il lettore nelle atmosfere di Roma, tra misteri irrisolti e complessi intrighi familiari. La storia ruota…