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posted March 25, 2007 10:24 AM         

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Praying Mantis egg sack!! I brought it home a put it in my bushes. I can't wait to see the little buggers!!!!

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posted March 28, 2007 01:53 AM         

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Sounds really cool!

How do you know this egg sack is of the preying mantis sort?

Is there something particular that makes it unique from other sacks? {or} Is it the location of where it was found?...
{{{ Genuinely curious here }}}

Take a picture already! Post it up.. Let us see... Now I'm excited!

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posted March 28, 2007 09:05 AM         

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It is called a ootheca. I LOVE mantises. I look for the eggs every year. I always have several, (probably more than I know), in my yard. After I posted this I found 4 more in my garden while I was pulling out weeds.

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posted March 29, 2007 12:05 AM         

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posted May 21, 2007 08:31 AM         

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Have they hatched yet?

MI mantis hatch is June but notsure when the walking sticks do.

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posted May 26, 2007 06:05 PM         

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Yes, they have hatched. I have some that are about and inch long and some tiny ones. They are sooooo cute.

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posted June 13, 2007 11:45 PM         

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Bluemoon, awesome pics!!! Thank you for sharing!
They are indeed adoreable; better yet, very efficent garden helpers.

Do you have walking sticks in your neck of the woods?

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posted June 14, 2007 07:27 PM         

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Thanks for the complement on the Pic, juni, but I did not take it. I did not get to see them hatch. I am going to take some pictures soon. They are about 3 inches long now. I have given several away. They don't play well together. lol. They are some cute little buggers.

Yes, we have walking stick here. I love them also. Do there egg sack look any thing like the mantis ones??

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posted June 14, 2007 10:08 PM         

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Hi Blue,
I have never been blessed to see the egg sack. So, your pic is doubly neat for me!
I have seen the hatchlings lumbering about and it is a joy to know I have natures helpers growing and working for me.
I imagine they don`t play well together as mantis do have some poor manners and eats her mate after laying her eggs.

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posted June 15, 2007 12:30 PM         

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the Brothers and Sisters chomp on each other also. They will eany bug of equal size. Fun stuff.

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posted June 18, 2007 09:52 PM         

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Adorable, yet... creepy
Here where I live these are around 5 inches long
and inundate the entire sides of buildings like something you'd see in a horror flick -lol

My children scream with delight!

Bluemoon
I appreciate your time and energy posting these pics, they are amazing!
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posted June 19, 2007 07:07 PM         

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yikes Bluemoon, I didn`t know the young`uns were cannibals...I thought it was a mating thing

I have yet to see hatchlings here.

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posted June 25, 2007 11:16 AM         

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posted June 25, 2007 03:00 PM         

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I have a bunch of them in my azelea bushes now. The biggest ones are about 3 inches.

I wish I could find some of these\

It is an Orchid Mantis. they don't live around here. they live in Southeast Asia

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posted June 25, 2007 03:49 PM         

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Gorgeous!

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posted June 25, 2007 08:58 PM         

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This is an Indian Rose Mantis.

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posted June 28, 2007 02:24 PM         

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wow! those guys are fantastic! They`re huge and so graceful looking.

The Orchid Mantis actually looks like a

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posted June 28, 2007 06:49 PM         

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I never reealize there were so many variaties

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posted July 05, 2007 07:49 PM         

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They`ve hatched

After poking around my rose bushs, there they were!
They are the smallest I`ve ever seen; because of your post , I went continously looking til I found the hatchlings.
Thanks for spurring me on Bluemoon!

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posted July 06, 2007 02:36 AM         

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posted July 06, 2007 10:23 AM         

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2 cool, Juni! I go out looking for mine several times a day. They are so cool!!

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posted July 06, 2007 10:23 AM         

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2 cool, Juni! I go out looking for mine several times a day. They are so cool!!

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posted August 04, 2007 05:39 PM         

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Have any of you been lucky enough to see one of these creatures? It's a lunar moth. I tried finding a picture of one that would do the one i saw justice. This came close.

The friend i was with informed me of what it was. I thought it was a huge butterfly. We came across it one night. I think it may have been a full moon. The one we saw was dressed in blues and purples and had two big circles (similar to the ones in the picture but much larger) on it's wings. It just sat there moving it's wings very very slowly, soaking up the moonlight.

I'll never forget it.

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posted August 04, 2007 07:31 PM         

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I believe that is a Cecropia Moth.

This is a Luna Moth

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posted August 04, 2007 08:22 PM         

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Ah-ha! Luna Thanks Bluemoon.
It looked like kind of a mix between the two above moths...more markings than the luna moth you posted...

I thought this was pretty.

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