Your yard is going to be full of mantises!
Please share some photos when you start seeing the tiny babies!
Scout said:
Your yard is going to be full of mantises!
Please share some photos when you start seeing the tiny babies!
Yes, please share! You’re so lucky to have that.
I’ll try to get some photos.
Scout said:
Your yard is going to be full of mantises!
Please share some photos when you start seeing the tiny babies!
I’ll try. I have an older video of one of the egg cases being laid.
Scout said:
Your yard is going to be full of mantises!
Please share some photos when you start seeing the tiny babies!
Don’t bring them inside, please.
Scout said:
Your yard is going to be full of mantises!
Please share some photos when you start seeing the tiny babies!
The little babies are so cute! We had some from a native egg case last year, it looked like this one.
Your garden is going to have no pests next spring or summer.
Zee said:
Your garden is going to have no pests next spring or summer.
It’s true, but they can be pretty aggressive. They kill anything, not just pests.
Zee said:
Your garden is going to have no pests next spring or summer.
It’s true, but they can be pretty aggressive. They kill anything, not just pests.
I saw one eat a bee the other day. Didn’t expect that when the bee flew by the mantis.
@Spencer
They’ll even catch hummingbirds!
What in the world are those? Are they some kind of flesh-eating alien from Australia?
River said:
What in the world are those? Are they some kind of flesh-eating alien from Australia?
Those are oothecae, which are praying mantis egg cases.
River said:
What in the world are those? Are they some kind of flesh-eating alien from Australia?
What are those?!?
River said:
What in the world are those? Are they some kind of flesh-eating alien from Australia?
What are those?!?
They’re oothecae, praying mantis egg cases.
Patrice said:
@Ren
That’s cool! What’s that?
A bunch of baby praying mantises (which are predatory insects) will hatch out of the eggs inside the ootheca.
Patrice said:
@Ren
That’s cool! What’s that?
A bunch of baby praying mantises (which are predatory insects) will hatch out of the eggs inside the ootheca.
That’s awesome! What’s that?
@Ren
Oh, that’s so cool! Thanks!
What zone are you in, if you don’t mind me asking?
Fallon said:
What zone are you in, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m in zone 10b, near Los Angeles.
Fallon said:
What zone are you in, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m in zone 10b, near Los Angeles.
Hi neighbor! We have these in our yard too, and I love how the tiny babies end up all over the yard!