Re: id help please

LOL!  Too bad you didn't capture that moment on film.  How on earth
you managed to catch them is beyond me - they aren't all that
big...what a hoot!

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Daryl <pulis@mindspring.com>
> 
> Marge,
> 
> You haven't lived until you've tried to escort a few hundred
Praying Mantis
> babes out of your greenhouse.
> 
> I had an egg case that someone brought to me for an ID. I popped
the stem
> into a pot in my greenhouse, never dreaming they'd all hatch at
once.
> 
> I took a short lunch break and came back to what seemed like the
Earth's
> entire population of Praying Mantises trying to exit my greenhouse.
> 
> They were everywhere. On the fans, on me, on the benches, on the
walls. When
> they got hungry, the nearest sib was lunch. They're sight hunters,
as you
> probably know. That means they left the yummy aphids and such to
chow down
> on their relatives. Sigh.

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