http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/29/preying-mantis-6/ Are we experts yet? Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/29/preying-mantis-6/comment-page-1/#comment-11266 JackieB Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:29:27 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=16167#comment-11266 Until 5 years ago I had never encountered a preying mantis in the "wild". In 2004 I was installing new electrical service to the farm house and noticed the grass was moving. There was what I could only describe as a small herd of mantis headed north to the unmowed back four acres. I bottled up one to show the wife that had to be six inches long. Now each year since I start looking for them in mid to late August and each year I see them headed north. Their numbers vary, but they are there like clockwork each year. Until 5 years ago I had never encountered a preying mantis in the “wild”. In 2004 I was installing new electrical service to the farm house and noticed the grass was moving. There was what I could only describe as a small herd of mantis headed north to the unmowed back four acres. I bottled up one to show the wife that had to be six inches long. Now each year since I start looking for them in mid to late August and each year I see them headed north. Their numbers vary, but they are there like clockwork each year.

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