On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
>
>
Cool! I love mantises (mantii?). Once I get more plants going in our
courtyard, I'd be tempted to order some as well.
We let the milkweeds grow wild in our courtyard for a couple of years in
hopes of attracting Monarchs, but the dwindling global population meant
that nobody wanted to hang out at our house....
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Paul Braun
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"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
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