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Mantis egg pod

Ootheca

Description:

1" long ootheca. Closest match I could find on size & form was the Narrow-winged mantis (Tenodera angustipennis)

Habitat:

Semi rural

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5 Comments

kris_anderson
kris_anderson 6 years ago

Stagmomantis carolina

“Praying Mantises of the United States and Canada”
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Pra...

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

They are pretty amazing structures - I brought one indoors last fall & had around 100 tiny mantises emerge this spring. I hope I get to see what comes out of this much larger ootheca!

nexttogone
nexttogone 11 years ago

Really? I've seen several of these in the past and had no clue that they were a Mantis egg sack. Thanks for sharing! ")

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Thanks namitha!

namitha
namitha 11 years ago

Nice, haven't seen one. At a distance it looks like a trilobite.

KarenL
Spotted by
KarenL

Franklin, Tennessee, USA

Spotted on Aug 26, 2012
Submitted on Aug 28, 2012

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