Praying Mantis

A little under 2 weeks ago, Alissa and I purchased a container with 2 Praying Mantis “eggs”. Each capable of spawning ~200 little ferocious insect killing machines! Well, they hatched sometime in the past 24 hours, while still in their cardboard container. A small note about Praying Mantis, they eat meat and will cannibalize their own if needed. Luckily, I checked the container today with the intent of putting one of the eggs out in the garden. Immediately after lifting off the top, a couple dozen little, brown mantis babies swarmed out on to the kitchen counter. I quickly recovered it and moved it outside to dump them in the garden. Alissa and I then played the fun game of catch the baby mantis. They were all shorter than an inch, can move quickly and they can even jump. We managed to recatch all of them and relocate them to the corn field. There may be a few still roaming the kitchen looking for something to eat. I’m not worried since all of the good beef is frozen and my cats like hunting bugs that jump.