Few photos from the yard

[Rick]

I know of a few ooths in my yard. However, I must have had no idea about this one. I started finding little nymphs at one corner of the house yesterday. I was incubating a european mantis ooth over there this past winter and it suddenly went missing after a storm. I wonder if that is where they are coming from. They could also be chinese or carolina. I lean towards chinese since I found an adult female in a bush there last year.

 

[revmdn]

I think there Chineese also, because I found and Chin ooth about a month ago and it just hatched, and they look just like that. Well imo, anyway. Do we have picks of Euro ooths somewhere? I'd like to find one of those.

 

[Rick]

Yeah they do look like chinese. I keep finding them all over my deck too. I saw another ooth hatch in a different place in the yard a few days ago. I also have a few carolina ooths in the yard but none of them have hatched yet. I may have apic of a european ooth.

 

[JoeCapricorn]

Ditto number 3 on the Chinese, my many Chinese babies look just like that.

One way to tell is that Chinese mantises don't curl their butts. They keep them straight.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Happy times, Rick!

 

[MantidLord]

Wow, that's cool. Can't wait for my chinese to hatch.

 

[Rick]

Happy times, Rick!

Nothing special really. I just like seeing wild mantids around the house. Especially when they are coming from an ooth I was unaware of.