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| Hey Mom Can you See Me? |
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| Remember me when I was tiny? |
The very first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22nd in 1970 and 20-million people came together to protest environmental destruction and raise awareness for a healthier, more sustainable planet. Since then, Earth Day has grown to be an annual global event with one billion people around the world joining together to draw attention to the environmental issues we face today.
Praying mantis will attack almost any insect and completes one life-cycle per season. It usually takes two to four weeks of warm temperatures for the egg cases to hatch.
The tiny mantis forces them selves through the narrow slits of the egg case and immediately disperse into the foliage. One praying mantis egg case will yield approx. 50-200 young mantis. After 5-6 months, the mantis reach their full size, and females deposit 1-5 egg cases on brush and flowers stalks they then dies. Their egg cases overwinter and hatch out in the spring, completing the life cycle.
They are so cute brownish and so tiny and they will stay where they are released. You can find them in your garden the next following days. When they are grown they do come back to my garden to say "Hi Mom Remember Me Look how Big I have Grown".
Be Creative Enjoy | Praying Mantis Egg Cases Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
Each praying mantis egg case will hatch about 200 mantids to help control pest insects in your garden or greenhouse. Mantids (mantis) eat various mites, insect eggs, aphids, leafhoppers, mosquitoes, caterpillars and other insects when young. The adult mantis will eat larger insects.
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