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Mighty Mantids
JANUARY 2006
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Baby Mantids
Photograph by Mark W. Moffett
Only minutes old, a newborn Chinese mantid, at right, watches a sibling squeezing out of their communal egg case like toothpaste from a tube. Perhaps 300 baby mantids of this species may hatch from a single case, called an ootheca. The young will grow into master camouflage artists and lightning-quick predators, like all the world's roughly 1,800 species of mantids (often called praying mantises).
Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
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Camera: Canon EOS3
Film Type: Fujichrome Velvia 50
Lens: 65mm macro, f/16
Speed and F-Stop: Unrecorded
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Weather Conditions: Unrecorded
Time of Day: Unrecorded
Lighting Techniques: Unrecorded
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