Egg case of praying mantis at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Mantidae (family) | 21 Apr 2018 | KimPullen | ||
| Mantidae (family) | 21 Apr 2018 | MatthewFrawley |
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User's notes
Discovered, to much excitement, by my daughter, who intitally thought it was a moth or butterfly cocoon.
1 comment
KimPullen
wrote:
22 Apr 2018
The creature on the right-hand side of the egg case is probably a wasp parasite of the mantis eggs.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.075845-35.384374
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Apr 2018 03:19 PM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
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Insects Praying mantises (Mantodea) MatthewFrawley
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Eggs Breeding behaviour
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Mantidae (family) Scientific name
- Egg case of praying mantis Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 953m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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