Ron Parker, of Courtland Township, sent us photos of a praying mantis doing something you may not have seen before.

“My wife first spotted the insect as it started to deposit its egg case on one of the posts on our chain-link fence,” wrote Ron. “I went out and started taking pictures as she did her work. Once she was finished she remained for some time with just one leg resting on the case as if she was waiting for it to harden. I looked this insect up on google and found that the adult usually doesn’t make it through the winter, but the young come out of the egg case in the Spring—if the case survives the winter and other insects!”

Thank you, Ron, for sending that our way!

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