im doing a talk on praying mantids in 6 days

[charleyandbecky]

Here's me doing a few at the annual Bugguide.net Gathering this summer:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/316829

http://bugguide.net/node/view/303101/bgimage

And a teacher friend's classroom photo album: http://www.insectgeeks.com/user/gallery/al...Phil/album_460/

I love the picture with the little girl on the end doing a mantis pose!

I've been thinking about going over to my daughter's kindergarten class and talking about mantids. I did a talk at a friend's class last year (friend is a kindergarten teacher) and it went very well, but for some reason my own daughter's class scares me! Probably because she drew a picture yesterday of what her teacher would look like if she was a mantis and then took it to the teacher! :lol:

Rebecca

 

[massaman]

largest I think is the Toxodera denticulata mantis or something like that which is like 20 cms long or the Ischnomantis gigas which is 17 cms long

smallest mantis is probably the ant mantis or something like that!