RE: CULT: Mantis & Wooly Worms

Praying Mantis (my bestest buddies!) didn't get as enormous as usual this
year.  Maybe because
it was so hot and dry, maybe because I had so many.  I bring in the egg cases
for the winter, and
scatter the hatchlings in the spring ASAP so they don't eat each other.  Have
never found an egg case
on iris, but they have plenty of other choices here.

Wooly worms here are, so far, all light colored.  I encountered an apparent
migration of them a couple
of weeks ago, on my way home from work.  Must have seen at least 50 crossing
the road, heading south,
in the last half mile to my driveway.  All I could think was they were heading
toward the bright sun on a
cold day.  Anybody have any other insight on why they would do this?  Kind of
surreal!

Mary Lou, near Indianapolis, Z5.  Rebloom not frozen out yet.

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