Praying Mantis

Date Found: October 17, 2011

Common Name: Praying Mantis

Scientific Name: Mantis religiosa

Found: On the screen of our back door, Hampstead, MD


Fun Facts:

It eats caterpillars, moths, flies, mosquitoes, bees.

The Praying Mantis can be found in meadows, on foliage and flowers in the Eastern US up to Ontario.

Mantids lay their egg sacks on sticks and twigs that are exposed above the snow. When the weather warms up in the late spring, all the eggs hatch. The tiny nymphs are carried away on the wind.

It's a Mystery!

OK, two blogs in one day tells you that mom is helping out BIG time so I can get some playtime in.  We're at my  Mimi and Poppy's house in Finksburg, MD and look what Poppy found!

We don't know what it is yet because we found it already in it's chrysalis stage.  Thankfully, my sister let me borrow her habitat to keep it in for now.

Here is what we do know - the rest will have to be added later.

Found: April 10, 2011 (by Poppy)
Cocoon location on a branch of Rosemary in the garden.  You will have to check back to see if and when we solve this mystery!