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Chinese Mantis

Tenodera sinensis

Photo by ulvalactuca77
Published on Project Noah
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40.3611, -74.0768

Field Notes

Notes:

"Where are all these baby praying mantids coming from?!", "Oh, the Christmas tree..."

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Comments (6)
ulvalactuca77
Ah! That had not occurred to me. Thanks for the input and the enlightenment. :)
ForestDragon
Thanks for adding it! I was actually looking at the egg case when I made the suggestion. Chinese Mantids have a particular shape to their oothecae. If you look at the pictures on the link there are several images of egg cases for that species.
ulvalactuca77
Added to you mission. Thanks for the id. I'm not sure if I can possibly positively identify them though by the image and because they were newly hatched.
ForestDragon
Who would have guessed? Hah! Possibly Chinese Mantids, Tenodera aridifolia sinensis http://bugguide.net/node/view/10098 I would love to see this added to the Marvelous Mantids of the North East mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/15738247
ChunXingWong
Is that the egg in the first and second photo ?

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PublishedNovember 19, 2011

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