Praying Mantis Life Cycle

An adult mom makes egg case Eggs grown into larva

with several hundred eggs in it. inside the egg case.

The adult mantis lives alone, Tiny baby mantis come out

then finds a mate to start the of the egg case. They eat, grow,

life cycle all over again. molt to get out of their small

skins, then eat, grow and molt more.

Adult mantis graphic above is from:

http://www.earthsbirthday.org/handson/mantis.html

The other 3 graphics were found at a site from which

our server has now been blocked.

http://www13.brinkster.com/mantispage/1/pics.html