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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mantids (Mantodea) » Mantidae » Mantinae » Tenodera » Narrow-winged Mantis (Tenodera angustipennis)
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Mantis egg case and? - Tenodera angustipennis
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Mantis egg case and? - Tenodera angustipennis
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
September 21, 2021
Size: Approx 1.5 - 2 inches
There were many like this on a wooden fence in partially hidden areas. Seek identified it as mud dauber but I’ve never seen a nest like that in my very limited experience. And I couldn’t find any matching images. It looks like there’s a partially born specimen or?
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Contributed by Vexxxed on 23 September, 2021 - 6:10am
Last updated 26 September, 2021 - 10:55pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John Stanard, 26 September, 2021 - 10:55pm login or register to post comments

Looks like...
a mantid ootheca like this one.
… Thomas Dawson Twining, 23 September, 2021 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

 
That seems like it, especiall
That seems like it, especially since there were Carolina mantises on the same fence.

The other mantis on the fence was this one:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2042305
What species is that?

And Above that is unrelated, just a bug wrapped in a web?

Thanx much
… Vexxxed, 23 September, 2021 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

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