{"id":757,"date":"2015-11-02T21:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scifundchallenge.org\/firesidescience\/?p=757"},"modified":"2018-09-10T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:27:39","slug":"757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scifundchallenge.org\/firesidescience\/2015\/11\/02\/757\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my garden? A mini praying mantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look what I found on the side of my house.<\/p>\n

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There were a few of them on the bricks. It’s a\u00a0small black insect. The brick’s about 8 cm (3 inches) high\u00a0– so it’s pretty small.\u00a0If I hadn’t looked closely I would have thought it was an ant!<\/p>\n

Up close you can\u00a0see that\u00a0it looks just like a praying mantis<\/a>. It’s a baby praying mantis.<\/p>\n

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Baby insects that look like their parents are called nymphs. The main difference is that only the adults have wings.<\/p>\n

In this video you can see the mother laying eggs and the babies hatching. Watch how they come out all folded up in a pod shape and then stretch themselves out.<\/p>\n