Praying mantis

A praying mantis is a type of insect that can easily be mistaken for being a moving leaf.
While was climbing a tree, one day in his childhood, he noticed a praying mantis, walking towards him. He initially mistook the creature for being a leaf and, after a long duration, realized what the mantis actually was. Repulsed by the insect, he screamed.
In 1995, Mulder, now an agent, recounted this story to his partner, , explaining that the incident was the reason he now hated insects. Before Mulder revealed the true nature of the thing he had first thought was a leaf, Scully immediately guessed that it had been a praying mantis. Mulder confirmed her suspicion - referring to his encounter with the creature as a "praying mantis epiphany" - and claimed that his scream had not been a girlie one, but the scream of a person being "confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet [he] inhabited". He then asked Scully whether she had ever noticed how the head of a praying mantis resembled that of an alien, but she was more curious whether he was sure that his scream had not been a girlie one. ( "")
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