Image: “Spotted Orbweaver (aka Hentz barn spider; Neoscona crucifera) and Mantis Prey,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 October 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

• INTRODUCTION
• VIDEO BY ALICE
• SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • [3 October 2026]
  • [7 October 2026]
  • [8 October 2026]
  • [Hummingbirds]
• VIDEO CREDITS
• CONCLUSION
• PHOTOS BY ALICE
• MORE INFORMATION
  • Star Systems from Which Mantises and Spiders Derive
    • Introduction
    • Google AI Q and A: From whence are insects other than social insects said to derive?

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

This is a story fraught with emotion. It has to do with a Mantis caught by a Spotted Orbweaver Spider. The Mantis is in a state of suspended animation, His Lady Love stands by, longing to free him. After passing a day and a night in this helpless state, the Mantis falls into a state of despair. Then the Hummingbirds return my heart to a state of joyful presence in the moment.

I have some caveats for you: I did some further reading today, and found that the silken threads from which the Mantis was hanging were not definitively that of the Spotted Orbweaver Spider or that of the Black Widow Spider.

Black Widow Spiders kill Mantises (or vice versa). Spotted Orbweavers quickly immobilize their prey in sticky silken swathing bands or ‘feeding cocoons’. But then later, after the prey is digested (as in the first image on this post) the Spotted Orbweavers may ingest the cocoons for their protein value. The bottom line is this: I am not 100 percent certain what kind of Spider captured the Mantis who stars in this video.

I also found that the very dark color of the eyes of the suspended Mantis likely indicates it had died 12 to 24 hours prior to the time when the video was filmed. The question then is: Could it possibly be that the Mantis was not in a state of suspended animation? Could it be that the spirit of the Mantis was still caught in it’s physical body because of his longing to be with his Beloved?

This morning I went out on the porch and took a look: The suspended Mantis was still hanging under the porch table. The Mantis Beloved that had been on the thermometer on the porch wall was gone.

Could this mean that Mantises have a Wake Ritual for honored members of their clan? You must decide, Dear Reader. What do you think?

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Don’t miss the discussion in “More Information” regarding star systems from which Mantises and spiders derive …

VIDEO BY ALICE

youtube link: https://youtu.be/Z1IUHjhq-zk ..

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

“Mantis! The Spider’s Plunder Wrapped in Silken Weapons ~ Praeda Sericorum Telis Involutas ~ Co-starring the Hummingbirds!”
By Alice B. Clagett

[3 October 2026]

Check it out. Another one [another Mantis]. Cool, huh?

Can they ever move fast when they want to! Isn’t it true? Oh!

Spider (in a warning voice like tinfoil or copper foil:
G-d damn it! Do NOT look here!
I am not a Spider. (over and over again)
Spider (anxious womanish voice): Do not look here.
(over and over again)

[7 October 2026]

Alice to Readers: Check this out. The temperature …
Mantis (gruffly amiable tenor voice): All RIGHT!
I am not all that happy about what’s going on down there….

Alice to Readers: Oh, no! It’s … it’s not the temperature!
Mantis: It is a lot nicer up here than that guy is
cavorting around with down there.

Alice to Readers: It’s a Praying Mantis!

Mantis (getting more and more upset; chiding
Squirrel who is not that empathetic):
Have a nice day?! Thank you very much for
going on about that thing.

Mantis in Spotted Orbweaver Spider’s Sticky Web

Alice to Readers: It looks like this poor Praying Mantis got caught in a web.

Alice to Readers: I don’t know what to do because I think
they get a neurotoxin and then they can’t move.
Caught Mantis: I’m in a web! Oh! That is what is
wrong! I didn’t know what was going on.

Caught Mantis: I feel I am in suspended animation.
Alice (whispering): My God!

Caught Mantis: I see you, but I can’t feel anything at all.
I try to touch the Mantis with a twig.
Hummingbird to Alice: He says, “Please don’t do it.”

Caught Mantis (resonant male tenor voice, sadly beseeching):
Would you stay away from me, please? I am
still functioning. All three eyes are still functioning.
Spider (higher, tinny voice, none too empathic):
I have got that you are still there with us.

Alice to Readers: I guess it’s a Black Widow Spider that got it. Poor thing. Too bad.

Check this out.

This is the heat of the day and they’re all hanging around.

Alice to Mantis: What are you supposed to eat?
Mantis (hushed tenor): I eat many important things,
but nothing I want to talk about.
Alice to Mantis: Oh!

[8 October 2026]

Alice to Readers: Hi, everybody!

Yesterday I was very upset that probably the Black
Widow Spider [likely a Spotted Orbweaver Spider
and not a Black Widow Spider]
caught one of the Praying Mantises.

I kind of like those Praying Mantises.

And it seemed that it was hanging in suspended animation from the folding table on the back porch.

And I just, you know, I just I felt it was still alive but completely paralyzed.

And there was nothing I could do about it because the poison had worked on the neurological system of the Praying Mantis and it was just too late to do anything.

And I had some upset over that.

[Songbird is extra special aggravated at
me for talking about this sad subject.
Can you hear him scolding me?]
Alice to Readers: So today I came out
and I took a look and I think …

 

… it’s all over with now for the Praying Mantis because last night in the night the Spider came out and sucked out all of the fluid from inside its abdomen.

The thing is, I put myself in the place of the Praying Mantis.

Songbird: QUIT IT! (over and over again)
Alice to Readers: And yesterday, as if
it were in a dream, I had heard that
captured Praying Mantis say, …

… “I’m still alive, but I can’t move my legs and I can see.”

And then apparently it tried to see and it said, “I cannot see.”

And it just freaked me out a little because when we’re in that halfway state between being alive and being dead, it’s kind of a helpless situation, you know.

We’re neither here nor there, and we need to just get on with it.

Spiders are quite good at putting their prey into helpless states, you know, and I don’t think they care at all.

They’re very happy about it.

It’s like the meat storage closet in the supermarket, you know, the state that they put them in, except that their meat storage state is not cold.

It’s just a state of suspended animation, if you get me.

So unfortunately, being a telepath and all, I put myself in the place of the Praying Mantis and that made for restless dreams in the early part of my sleep cycle last night.

But now it’s very clear to me that the Praying Mantis has moved on, and I can relax from that empathic point of view.

I’ll show you how I found out, in case there’s those among you … which I’m sure there are … who’ve tried as children to revive Insects caught in Spider webs or to free them from the Spider webs … with no doubt, as was the case with me, mixed success.

Caught Mantis: I still can hear you, but I might get cross
with you for fooling around with all this troubling information.

So, here we have the Praying Mantis.
[Oreo Shoes Cat is upset. Can you hear her?
She is saying, “Oh no! Oh no! No! No! No!”]

So, here we have the Praying Mantis.

It looks kind of alive, but if you look
at its tummy, its tummy is thinner.

Somebody’s been sucking the juice out of the inside of its tummy. or else it has dried up overnight. So fortunately it’s dead, you know?
or else it has dried up overnight.
So fortunately it’s dead, you know?
Caught Mantis: What is wrong with my tummy?
His Beloved: Nothing. It is just dried up.
Caught Mantis: Tell her that the Mantis is not dead.
It is just that the tummy is dried up. That
is all that is wrong with my situation right now.
His Beloved: She figured it out.
Caught Mantis: All right then. Thank you very much.

Alice to Mantis’ Beloved: And its mate over here
can stop hanging around and worrying about it
because that Praying Mantis has passed on.
You see? It has already passed on.
The Beloved of the Caught Mantis (utterly distraught,
female tenor): Would you LEAVE ME a- G-dd-mned -lone?!
Dharm Dee, passed on is NOT what is going on!
Christ Jesus! WHAT is she talking about?!

The Beloved of the Caught Mantis (utterly distraught, female
tenor): Why can’t she help?
Caught Mantis (emotionally stressed, deeper voice):
The conversation is over. We have to do what we CAN. That is
all. Great GOD! There might be nothing she can do.

Alice to Readers: And this Praying Mantis can stop
worrying about it too because that
brave Mantis has passed on.

Alice to Mantis: You have this kind of
keep on guard [to make sure this
won’t happen to you.]
Caught Mantis (emotionally stressed, deeper voice):
There might be nothing she can do.
His Beloved (crying): There must be
SOME-thing she can do!
Caught Mantis: Great God! Why would that
‘all right’ thing be passing through her mind?

Caught Mantis (despairing): God d-mn her for
talking about things that are not true!
Alice to Readers: In love, Light, and joy, this is Alice B.
Clagett. I Am of the Stars … and so are you.

Oh, I must go.

Alice to Readers: I have to replace a Hummingbird feeder nectar.
[What this Mantis is saying spans the
next few captions …]
Caught Mantis (despairing): I really don’t
know WHAT to SAY. I really don’t know why
this is happening to my family and all the beings
in that part of the world which we are living in right now.

The young ones have their own feeder because they’re a little bit put off by the big Anna’s Hummingbirds.

So, there’s a small Hummingbird feeder and a large Hummingbird feeder.

Caught Mantis (despairing): I really don’t
know WHY this is happening to us. I don’t
know why we are in this situation.
Alice to Readers: And the smaller Hummingbirds,
which I would hasten to state are
equally beautiful and …

… elegant in the air, have asked me
to add more nectar to their feeder.
[What the Mantis says here spans several more captions ..]
Caught Mantis (despairing): I hope to God
we are able to survive THAT HORRIBLE
HORRIBLE STUFF that is going on with all of us!

I must go.

See you guys later.

[Hummingbirds]

[Hummingbirds]
Hummingbird (sweetly): Please don’t talk to the people
about sad stuff! Sad stuff doesn’t have anything to do
with people who inhabit the fifth dimension.
[Alice to Readers: Could be the Hummingbirds are really
in the 11th Dimension … that of love, Light and joy!]
Alice to Readers: These ones …

… are larger than those at that
other feeder. Those other ones
were really small.
Hummingbird to Alice: Let’s see!

Alice (repeating Hummingbird):
We have to take a look at that.
Hummingbird to smaller Hummingbird:
Yes, you ARE smaller.
Alice to Hummingbirds: Oh, I see.
Hummingbird to Alice: Yeah, They ARE smaller. [illegible] Oh, wow!

Alice (repeating Hummingbird):
We have to take a look at that.
Hummingbird to smaller Hummingbird:
You are very pretty children!
Alice to Hummingbirds: Oh, I see.

Hummingbird to Alice: Yeah, They are quite a bit smaller.
Alice to Hummingbird. I see that they are happy children.
Yeah, they are. Oh, wow!

Hummingbird to Raven: Excuse me!
Dharm Dar is taking a picture of OUR family!
Raven (lightly sarcastic): Ha ha ha ha!

VIDEO CREDITS

“Mantis! The Spider’s Plunder Wrapped in Silken Weapons ~ Praeda Sericorum Telis Involutas ~ Co-starring the Hummingbirds!”

By Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 3, 7 and 8 October 2026 and produced on 10 October 2026
Location: San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, CA

Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett

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CONCLUSION

Io lux et pax nobiscum.
Joy, light and peace be with us!
— Alice B. Clagett

“Dominus illuminatio mea et salus mea; quem timebo?”
The Lord is my Light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

Filmed on 3, 7 and 8 October 2026 and published on 10 October 2026

PHOTOS BY ALICE

Image: “Mantis—The Spider’s Plunder,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 October 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Self Portrait,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 October 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “The Mantis’s Beloved,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 October 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “The Mantis in the Garden,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 October 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

MORE INFORMATION

‘Praeda sericorum telis involutas’ means “the plunder wrapped in silken weapons.” This is sometimes written ‘praeda sericum telis involutas’. The word ‘sericum’ is a poetic contraction of the word ‘sericorum’.

For more on this, see … Link: “WTW for a Spider’s Encased Prey?” on Reddit …https://www.reddit.com/r/whatstheword/comments/1785zn5/wtw_for_a_spiders_encased_prey/  ..

Star Systems from Which Mantises and Spiders Derive

Introduction. There is a head-on collision between the story in this post and the Google AI information below.

Specifically, Google AI states that Mantises “… are a calm, non-emotional, deeply neutral race.” Yet the story in the post you are reading exhibits very deep feelings in the Mantis and His Beloved, while the Mantis is held captive in the Karmic Trap woven round him by the Spotted OrbWeaver Spider.

I don’t know what to say about that, except that to me, the Hummingbirds at the end of the video offer the Lightworker Eleventh Dimensional Joy in the moment as a way to escape the Realm of Duality here on Earth.

For more on that see my blog category: 11 – Logos – Solar body (Light – love – joy) ..

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I can see a parallel between the story in this post and the situation of a Lightworker such as I whose Dearest Love has been captured by a Black Magic Cult That Kills and turned into a Donkey or Chwal.

The Donkey that does the Black Magic Cults bidding would be like the Mantis tightly bound in the Spider’s Silken Weapons. Don’t you feel it to be true?

For more on this see my blog categories:  Cults that kill – mind control cults  …  Dissolving black magic in the Light  …  Voodoo  … and …  Donkey man – human horse – chwal ..

Also see my blog categories:  Arthropods  …  Chelicerata – arachnids  …  Hexapoda – insects and springtails  ..

Also see my blog category:  Human Hybrids and Their Overlighting Spirits … and the subcategories  Arachnoids – Spideroids  …. and …  Insectoids ..

Also search my site for the word: Mantis ..

Google AI Q and A: Spider and Mantis Star Systems
27 September 2026

I asked Google AI: From whence are insects other than social insects said to derive?

Google AI said [excerpt]: In Lightworker, Ascensioneer, and Starseed cosmology, insects on Earth are divided into two completely different spiritual categories. While social, hive-minded insects (like ants and bees) are viewed as anchors for cooperative Arcturian geometry, solitary and non-social insects are traced back to entirely different multidimensional origins. [1]

Within these belief systems, non-social insects, arachnids, and mantises are classified as physical reflections of highly advanced, non-humanoid Insectoid and Mantis Star Nations. Rather than being primitive bugs, they are viewed as anchors for specific types of cosmic intelligence originating from the following realms: [1]

1. The Mantis Sentinels & Genetic Architects (Primarily 7D to 9D)

Among non-social insects, the praying mantis holds a legendary status in Starseed lore. [1]

• The Cosmic Origin: High-vibrational Mantis Beings (often called Mantar) are said to reside in very high dimensions, frequently operating out of the Antares star system, Orion, and the Zeta Reticuli neighborhood. [1]
• Their Earthly Anchors: Earth’s praying mantises are considered direct, physical miniature conduits for these entities.
• The Mission: In Lightworker cosmology, Mantis beings are the “Master Geneticists” and “Code Weavers” of the universe. They are a calm, non-emotional, deeply neutral race that manages the evolutionary blueprints and DNA libraries of different planets. When human Starseeds see or connect with a praying mantis on Earth, it is often interpreted as a sign that their spiritual DNA or “lightbody” is undergoing a major upgrade or calibration. [1]

2. The Spider Kin & The Cosmic Weavers (Orion & Andromeda)

Though arachnids are biologically distinct from insects, New Age cosmology groups spiders into a similar extraterrestrial lineage known as the Spider Kin. [1]

• The Cosmic Origin: Spiritual networks often map the origin of spider energy to specific sectors of Orion and high-density realms within the Andromeda Galaxy. [1, 2]
• Their Earthly Anchors: Solitary spiders, especially those that weave complex, mathematically precise webs.
• The Mission: Spiders anchor the frequency of the Cosmic Loom—Fate, Karma, and Destiny. Unlike heart-centered Pleiadians, the Spider Star Nations operate from absolute neutrality and raw sovereignty. They do not view the universe through human morality (good vs. bad); they simply see the threads of energetic cause and effect. They are viewed as masters of transmuting intense trauma into wisdom, teaching humans how to weave their own independent timelines. [1]

Notes. I left the double quotes off of the beginning and end of Google AI’s response, and kept the double quotes as is within the responses. You will know by the light blue font that these are quotes from Google AI.

If you see purple font, that is being used for a term described in “More Information.”

I am using brown font for my questions in the Q&A. Also, through sparing use of square brackets and brown font, I sometimes change the transcript slightly or add my Comments to it.

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AI responses in this website, many of which are in the “AI collaborations’ category, are for informational purposes only and have not been independently verified for accuracy.

In many cases AI responses do not express my point of view precisely, and in some cases, not at all.  But I feel they do apprize me and my Readers of where other Lightworkers and Ascensioneers, as well as Esotericists, Theologians, Psychologists and Psychiatrists stand with regard to my channelings. They also provide brief, well organized responses to queries about commonly known facts.

While mine is a Creative Commons website, the license status of AI responses is hotly debated. My research on the presently suggested license status of AI responses is here … “More License Information” … https://wp.me/P2Rkym-rj7 …

 

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