Praying Mantis

I am pretty sure this is not a Mantis religiosa.

Thanks! I'm very excited that I have found TWO mantid cases on my bushes. Can't wait for the warm weather!!!

Hi Judy, nice find! The other two images have been removed since they were different species. Feel free to repost the beetle as its own post. This would be a nice addition to the Marvelous Mantids of the North East mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1573...

Interesting spotting Judy,congrats ,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah.
You only can put a species in each spotting ,in this one you have 3 so you have to make 3 spottings,ok? :-)
I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-)
You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users.
There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings.
Attention when join local missions http://www.projectnoah.org/missions they have a range that is in the mission map,see first that before join.you only can submit spotting in a mission if the photos where taken inside the mission range.
Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)