Mantis Madness

So John Casey thought that we had some dried snails on the screen door outside of our bedroom. He removed the "snails" and threw them in our bathroom waste basket. The next afternoon I noticed tons of tiny bugs emerging from the waste basket. Thanks to the internet and my memory of a mama mantis on our screen door all last summer, I identified the bugs as baby praying manti.

Baby Mantis

Mantis Egg Case