Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Baby Mantis?, 0 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
I foudn some baby mantis on my hibiscus plants. Was hsaring the phot and one person shared an interestign fact. The females wil generally stay in one place and usually don't run from you and you can learn to hand feed them and tame them. it the males that are the more agressiv e ones and do alot of traveling.

Kinda hard to se e , but her e one of my Mantis hangin on to a bud in the center of the photo. Was a windy day. I go out and can fidn the female s standing guard on the tops of the hibiscus by the blooms.

They bettre than a guard dog I said for pest mgt.

Donna your phot is truly awesome. I never managage to se them hatchign or emerging. You ought to put that pic in the bug files, shows a good pic of what folsk shoudl look for so they don't mistake them for grasshoppers and kill them. Thansk for sharign that photo. : )