Beginner Gardening: They Hatched!!!, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
This mantis egg case is on a fence rail. It is about 1 1/2 inches long. Our mature mantis grow to about 3 1/2 to 4 inches long, so larger mantis probably make proportonately larger cases. They don't seem to be fussy about where they stick these things as long as it looks to them to be a protected spot. Some of them are in anything but a protected place, like the west side of a metal fencepost or the side of my house.