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Juvenile Chinese mantids

Tenodera sinensis

Photo by Latimeria
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Field Notes

Description:

Very tiny when juveniles freshly hatched. Yellow exoskeleton, with black eyes.

Notes:

These are newly-hatched Chinese mantids. Between 100 and 120 of them emerged from an ootheca the size of a ping pong ball.

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PublishedFebruary 16, 2011

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