cocoon?

Lee said:
A wasp nest is mud covered so not that.

Looks like some kind of seed pod maybe.
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Just a small correction, but wasp's nests are not covered in mud. They are very thin material, almost like tissue paper.

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A dirt-dauber or mud-dauber has the mud nest.

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Looks familiar as we get these underneath our overhang outside in the summer....pretty sure it's a bees nest.....
 

Grampa Don said:
My babies have hatched. There are nine so far. It has been exactly 5 weeks since I found the egg case.

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Don,

It's raining right now. Tomorrow it's supposed to clear off and I will release them. Hopefully they won't eat each other in the mean time.
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Don, some of us have odd hobbies, but this is a new one for me. Maybe this virus is getting to all of us.
… and I hope they don't eat each other either. LOL
 
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Praying mantids are perhaps the most famous example of sexual cannibalism, which is common in insects, spiders, and other arthropods. The assertion that their copulations necessitate this action, however, is false, as the bulk of mantid copulations do not end in decapitation.
 
Catlady said:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hummingbirds-beware-praying-mantis-killers-1.4203443

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Praying mantids are fast and can snatch a hummingbird out of the air. It's rare, but it's gruesome. A praying mantis lurks on a hummingbird feeder, watching carefully as a hummingbird hovers near the sugary water.
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I used to purposely move mantis egg cases to my garden until I heard about this. I stopped doing that when I saw this in a video and stopped refilling my hummingbird feeders /-; There are plenty of other food sources for both, but I found these videos very disturbing.
 
Grampa Don said:
I found this stuck to a rag in my garage today. Anybody know what it is? The squares are one inch. I put it in a covered dish to see what comes out.

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Don
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Think its a praying mantis egg cocoon. We get them every year on the swimming pool filter. Love them as they eat aphids and grasshoppers and other good for nothing that I know of insects. They will hatch when the weather gets warm if you put them in a protected area - fun to watch them hatch. Here in the Texas Gulf Coast/hill country area, they hatch in may and grow big in August if the bugs are plentiful.
 
Grampa Don said:
Here's a closeup of one. Pretty little guys.

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Word to the wise...don't leave them in your garage. Once hub and his dad went fishing and cracked the windows on the car...when they came back the whole car was jumping with baby praying mantises. Best to put them in a sheltered area in a nice ventilated area. When the egg starts to hatch its "Katy bar the doors"!
 
Empty said:
I had a 6" one in N.E. Ohio last fall that had settled in on my window screen by a butterfly bush. I loved seeing him there, until I started researching them and found the videos of them eating hummingbirds - My hummingbirds are only around 3 and a half inches... and I like them more!
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The ones around here are the California Mantis and only get about 2 inches long and are bright green.
 
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