Open Show n' Tell 2016

TWS

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fumble

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My little collection of praying mantis eggs. I've never seen so many mantids as we saw this summer up in the mountains! hundreds...literally. i found 7 eggs. the one in the bottom of the pic is an old one. zoom in and you can see where they hatched from. the new ones are different colored and smooth. I will keep them in a safe spot outside so they can hatch next year :)
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TWS

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My little collection of praying mantis eggs. I've never seen so many mantids as we saw this summer up in the mountains! hundreds...literally. i found 7 eggs. the one in the bottom of the pic is an old one. zoom in and you can see where they hatched from. the new ones are different colored and smooth. I will keep them in a safe spot outside so they can hatch next year :)
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That is so cool . I seen some mantis as big as a small dog this year . Lol
 

TWS

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I've never seen so many. we had more than 1 per plant lol
I know . We would find them at the house and take them over . Not many down in so cal at all so it was cool.
I seen one one night in the light of the Lantern flying into a big spider Web to call attention to the daddy long legs in there and eat them . I thought he was stuck at first but that was it's technique. Lol
 

fumble

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They are such cool bugs. they are very good and eat bad bugs. they kinda have to see it move tho to get their attention. we had them in the house too TWS . my guy would come in and I'd have to tell him he had a hitch hiker on his back lol. he'd take them out to the garden. with all the mantis sex that was going on I'm surprised I didn't find more eggs
 

ruby fruit

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They are such cool bugs. they are very good and eat bad bugs. they kinda have to see it move tho to get their attention. we had them in the house too TWS . my guy would come in and I'd have to tell him he had a hitch hiker on his back lol. he'd take them out to the garden. with all the mantis sex that was going on I'm surprised I didn't find more eggs
The sex bit got tws attention
 

757growin

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My little collection of praying mantis eggs. I've never seen so many mantids as we saw this summer up in the mountains! hundreds...literally. i found 7 eggs. the one in the bottom of the pic is an old one. zoom in and you can see where they hatched from. the new ones are different colored and smooth. I will keep them in a safe spot outside so they can hatch next year :)
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I put my sticker on the hash fridgebongsmilie

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