This is what we see when we open the bag to find that the
praying mantis's have hatched. Now keep in mind this is
only one egg that has hatched as each egg hatches 500-600
tiny praying mantis's.
Emily displaying her little praying mantis she is releasing.
Andrew holding his little praying mantis.
Kathlena holding a tiny praying mantis.
We have been busy building a new garden this year. Tilling, hauling in dirt, stringing hot wire fence to keep the deer out and finally planting. About six weeks ago I purchased some praying mantis eggs off of ebay so that the kids could watch them hatch and then we could release them into the garden. They are ferocious bug eaters! So, they make for good pest control in the garden. We did this last year too and it was so fun to see the hundreds of tiny praying mantis's crawl out of the bag.
Today we found that one of the eggs had hatched so we headed out to the garden to release them. Here are a few short video clips and some pictures we took. Andrew and Kathlena are loving gardening...I can hardly wait til harvest time as they will so enjoy picking the fruit of their labor.
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