Continued...
Here's an update to the "What a Lovely Lady" post from last week.
As I suspected the Praying Mantis was a female. This has been confirmed. And that she had one more chore to do before passing on. This has also been confirmed.
I poked around the area were we noticed her hanging out, which is a tangled mess of Honeysuckle vines growing in and out of a lattice trellis, and sure enough I found her egg sack.
It's hard to spot in the first photo, as the egg sack looks very much like the dried/drying leaves of the Honeysuckle. The second photo gives you a much better look just what her egg sack looks like. It's a hard crusted shell, which protects the eggs inside from the wind and rain and snow that it will surely be subjected to this coming Fall, Winter and Spring.
If all goes well, the young'n will emerge come Spring and hopefully will stick around and help rid our gardens of pesky, unwanted insects.
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