Praying Mantis Egg Case With Wasp Holes-2
Praying Mantis Egg Case With Wasp Holes. It could be on a Creosote Bush.
Praying Mantis are avid hunters of insects, especially effective against flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps, crane flies, grasshoppers and crickets. Praying Mantis egg cases contain about 200 eggs. Eggs will hatch when temperatures rise in spring, and hungry Praying Mantis babies will emerge. At the end of the season, females will lay several more egg clusters to continue the population the following year.
Wasps deposit their eggs in the Praying Mantis egg case. Fortunately, the wasp babies eat only a few of the Mantis eggs.
Nature Walks are definitely a way to make exercise itself interesting!!
It was a three hour walk with elements of hiking. At the end of two hours I felt great. At the two and a half hour mark, I felt like I had done a bit too much. On arriving back at the parking lot after three hours, I could barely move my leg quadriceps and gluteus maximus muscles...;)).
Last week I had to leave early for an appointment after only two hours. And, before that there was a two week break for Xmas Day and New Years Day. So I was really out of shape. Today I'm stiff and a bit sore, but nothing major...;))
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Praying Mantis Egg Case With Wasp Holes-2
Praying Mantis Egg Case With Wasp Holes. It could be on a Creosote Bush.
Praying Mantis are avid hunters of insects, especially effective against flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps, crane flies, grasshoppers and crickets. Praying Mantis egg cases contain about 200 eggs. Eggs will hatch when temperatures rise in spring, and hungry Praying Mantis babies will emerge. At the end of the season, females will lay several more egg clusters to continue the population the following year.
Wasps deposit their eggs in the Praying Mantis egg case. Fortunately, the wasp babies eat only a few of the Mantis eggs.
Nature Walks are definitely a way to make exercise itself interesting!!
It was a three hour walk with elements of hiking. At the end of two hours I felt great. At the two and a half hour mark, I felt like I had done a bit too much. On arriving back at the parking lot after three hours, I could barely move my leg quadriceps and gluteus maximus muscles...;)).
Last week I had to leave early for an appointment after only two hours. And, before that there was a two week break for Xmas Day and New Years Day. So I was really out of shape. Today I'm stiff and a bit sore, but nothing major...;))
IMG_8514 - Version 2