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Stagmomantis carolina
Less than 1 cm long. Knees have black bands.
Found wandering my front porch with many others with it. Appeared to have just emerged from the egg sac.
I could find no reference for other 2 occuring species for my location to indicate them. Several photos of newly emerged Carolina mantis had the black "knees" on them and look identical to my spottings. So by process of elimation I have identified it. http://usamantis.com/carolina_log.html shows them raised from egg case. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/105... : a project noah spotting raise from egg case as well.
Spotted on Jun 30, 2017
Submitted on Jul 4, 2017
5 Comments
Yes it is Sarah :)
If this part of the world is like ours the babies are very difficult to determine species... (unless you definitely only have one type in the area)
Oh...Ok...I get it. But it is a baby Mantis, right, Mark?
that beautiful!
Cute!
SarahWhitt
Please don't put suggestions that do not contain proper, binomial (genus and species) scientific names. Mantis is a general name for insects in the order Mantodea.