We got babies again!
Every year we have lots of preying mantis’s around our garden. Usually in the spring I see a bunch of babies shortly after they hatch. A few times they’ve been right by our front door and we’ve actually had to be careful not to step on them or to let them walk into the house.
I was a little concerned this year because I hadn’t seen any yet. But today - I saw some!
Only three and they looked a little bigger than they usually are when I first see them. So I’m guessing that these are a few days old - and most of them has dispersed already - hence only seeing 3 of them or they could be a different species. Last year we saw at least one that was much larger that ones we usually see here.
I’m no expert on preying mantis species, but I was under the impression that the large ones where I live were all Chinese preying mantis (sorry don’t know scientific name). But clearly we’ve seen more than one type of large one.
At any rate, here are a couple picture of our new babies (you may need to click on the image for it to be big enough to see it clearly):
