Mantid ootheca or what?

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EMBeyer Grafschaft, Germany Jan 13, 2009

In Dec. last year, when I was in Cape Verde Islands, I found this strange object. Is it an ootheca of a mantid?

Erwin

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EMBeyer Grafschaft, Germany Jan 13, 2009

Out of curiosity I opened it, inside it looked like this:

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jan 13, 2009

This does indeed appear to be a mantid egg case (ootheca); from the second image, the eggs in it may already have hatched.

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