Fall additions are here!

Every year we wait anxiously for the first showing of our little green friends and this year is proving to be a very good one! We are now sharing our home with 9 praying mantids! 5 Chinese, 3 Carolina, and one that we have never seen before. I've really missed having these little guys around :) 3 of them are visibly pregnant which is always a mixed sort of feeling for us- it's exciting to watch them grow & then form their egg sacks & wait for the hundreds of babies to hatch, but it's also sad to know the moms won't survive the process... It was so exciting last night to come home & see our male (Tweak) mating with one of the females (Gimp). Even more exciting was waking up to see that Gimp is now visibly more rounded which equals ovulation & pregnancy :)

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