Chinese Mantid nymph

Nice find! That's a healthy looking nymph! I am fairly sure this is not a Carolina Mantis. The body shape and coloration doesn't seem to match. Brown phase Carolina Mantises also have stripes on their legs. Here is a link to the Bugguide page for the Carolina Mantis. You can compare your image to these: http://bugguide.net/node/view/4821 Here are some images of brown phase Chinese Mantids. http://bugguide.net/node/view/676039/bgimage http://bugguide.net/node/view/331935/bgimage http://bugguide.net/node/view/227395/bgimage Hope this helps! Please consider adding this to the Marvelous Mantids of the North East mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/15738247