Look what arrived yesterday:
These are the sacks praying mantises lay their eggs in. Our instructions said to attach the sacks outdoors, about a foot off the ground. The sacks protect the babies from severe weather until the warm days of summer comes. We decided we want to see the babies so we're keeping them in a brown paper bag on a window sill. It can take up to eight weeks for them to hatch. When they do, we'll have 50 to 200 praying mantises per egg! That's anywhere from 150 to 600 babies!
Once the babies hatch we'll put some in our vegetable garden. The rest will go to work in the corn field we hope to plant this weekend.
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