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Mantis Religiosa
A praying mantis egg that will hatch once the weather gets warm. It is clinging to a twig located in a meadow of small shrubs, mugwort, and cattails.
These are so neat! I found one last year in the garden (none this year though).
I am pretty sure this is from a Chinese Mantid though:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/32141
Mantis religiosa ootheca look like this:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/724859/bgi...
This would be a nice addition to the Marvelous Mantids of the North East misson:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1573...
I have to agree! I couldn't believe there were so many of them out in the meadow just hiding in plain sight! It must be quite the experience to see the baby mantis's hatch
Spotted on Jan 19, 2012
Submitted on Jan 20, 2012
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