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These are amazing. But let me tell you
Oh boy. These are amazing. But let me tell you, don't let the dog get them!
Four weeks ago I thought it would be cool to buy one of those habitats that has multiple praying mantis egg sacks and watch them hatch with my kids. The plan was to release them in the front and back yard. So the package comes and one of my kids (4 year old) is perplexed and the other (11 years) is like F-you, gross. We check them every day for the first week or two and nothing happened. The excitement died off but we still checked it every 2-3 days. My 11 year old has a Girl Scout trip to Hershey, PA this last weekend so we spent Friday and Sat night and drove home Sunday, getting home late afternoon. I cannot find this habitat anywhere.. I was like WTF. We do have a cleaning lady that is known to put stuff away and we have to look for it so it was nothing out of the ordinary, it will turn up.
Some come today I am sitting in a meeting and my wife texts me at noon and says "OMG praying mantis are all over the couch."... I drove home (only 10 mins away) and sure as heck I see 10 or so baby mantis crawling all over my couch. I start to take apart my sectional so I can find where they are coming from. Finally I find one egg stack, pick it up and take it outside. As I am walking outside with it mantis are crawling out of it and jumping. I then find out my dog chewed the habitat, the dog watcher cleaned up the mess and did not tell us. Problem is.... that habitat had 3 egg sacks, I found one. So ether the dog watcher cleaned up and threw away some or I potentially have 1-2 more egg sacks in my living room. Each egg sack has 50-200 praying mantis.
Will buy again but not let the dog get them!
June 2018 · Pet Supplies · verified purchase