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PostIcon Posted on: Dec. 30 2010,05:03  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Here's a little tidbit of info you may or may not have known, but could save you trouble in the future:

Praying mantis egg clutches rely on the presence of heat to know when to hatch, not time or daylight or anything else.

Our freshly cut christmas tree had a clutch of praying mantis eggs on it.

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fake edit - Actually I noticed the egg sack immediately and cut it off and put them in the kid's "Bug Jar," figuring the mesh-like sides would keep them in IF they hatched before spring.  Nope.

Should have put the whole thing out in the cold garage.

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Wonder if they are a species on decline. I saw a few last year and remembered seeing them alot as a kid.

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Wonder if they are a species on decline. I saw a few last year and remembered seeing them alot as a kid.

The trees at the tree farm, there were 1-3 egg cases per tree, that I saw.

We also saw a huge mantis on the privacy fence last summer.  Big as the kid's head.

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They kick ass for keeping pests away from your garden.  And they look bad-ass.

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Yeah, I wish they weren't all outside dead.

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You can buy them pretty cheap.

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