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Praying Mantises Have Hatched Once Again
I’m leaving for ten days in Svalbard, Norway tomorrow to hopefully photograph the polar bears. As I was getting ready and watering the plants on our deck for the last time for a while, I was thrilled to find the praying mantises have hatched and one posed for me on our yellow pansy. Here…
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The Babies Arrived!!
This past winter I found two praying mantis egg sacs during my walks in Valley Forge. I put them in my pocket and then put them in a glass jar on the kitchen windowsill with a little covering on the top. Yesterday when we came downstairs the window was covered with hundreds of little…
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The Babies Just Keep Getting Bigger!!
I’ve become rather obsessed with my baby praying mantises. They are now in the vegetable garden, the flower garden and the Japanese Maple and they are growing!! Some are getting much bigger than others. This is a medium sized one. Oh it is way too much fun to go out and say hello each…
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Baby Praying Mantis on a Japanese Maple Leaf (Click Image for Fuller View)
A few weeks ago I let go three little egg sacs full of baby praying mantises in the front and side yards. I hadn’t seen any of the babies since that day until today when I saw a whole slew of them on our Japanese Maple Tree. They are the tiniest little things but…
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Baby Praying Mantises
This past winter I found a praying mantis egg sac in the field at Valley Forge. I brought it home, put it in a paper bag on the windowsill and waited to see if the eggs would hatch. This morning I opened the bag and inside were about 200 pairs of eyes staring back…
