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Dee777 Melbourne, Australia Apr 01, 2011

Location Melbourne, Australia
Size about 8 cm to 4 cm to 2 cm

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Apr 01, 2011

This is an ootheca (egg case) of a praying mantis; beneficial and nothing to worry about.

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Dee777 Melbourne, Australia Apr 01, 2011

WOW! I would love to be able to see the Mantis and to take a picture :-)
Never saw one in real!

Thanks for the very fast answer :-) Now I know that the children are save :-)

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Apr 01, 2011

Australia has many native species of mantids - see http://tinyurl.com/42fm3rj for one of the commonest species, the so-called 'garden mantid.'

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Apr 01, 2011

Dee - when I was 7 or 8 years old I brought a similar mantis egg case home and kept it in my room. One Sunday morning as we were getting ready to leave for church we discovered the eggs had hatched. Hundreds of miniature (3/8") preying mantises all over my room. What timing. :-)

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