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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Praying Mantis Baby
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:27:32 +0530
References: <CA+yJO1DmWiy4U_nyRHuXf4x1mpJGHjabV_OTaW7mgdpTgTupoA@mail.gmail.com>

Neat!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
> PESO:
>
> I ordered some praying mantis egg cases from Amazon.  Four arrived and I
> put them in a canning jar in the kitchen with a seed sprouter lid on it.
>  It was supposed to take about 4 weeks for them to hatch but after 3 weeks,
> I came in the kitchen to find tiny praying mantises everywhere!  One of the
> cases had hatched and the babies were small enough to get through the lid!
>  I gathered up as many as I could find and the other three cases and took
> them to the garden.  Here is one escaping from the canning jar:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/image/156145345
>
> C&C greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Tina Manley
> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com
>
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