Baby Preying Mantis’!
I have no idea how to make ‘Mantis’ plural - is it ‘Manti’, ‘Mantis’s’? Either way - some hatched!
We always have lots of preying mantis laying eggs around our gardens in the fall and I always look forward to the first day the following spring when I first see the little babies crawling and jumping around. I hate to admit it but I almost get more excited about the baby preying mantises than I do the butterflies sometimes! They are just so cute!
The little guy in the picture below I found in front of our house near the door. Later I saw at least 4 different individuals. There are likely many, many more around too!
I didn’t measure him/her and its hard to tell the scale from this picture, but I’d say it was less than 2 cm long. They don’t particularily like to sit still for photos either, so I did good to get this one picture:
