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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Moth masquerading as mantis ootheca 👀
#InverteFest
Small brown moth with a shape and markings which makes it look like a mantis' egg case/ootheca. Chilling on a palmetto frond
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
mide.bsky.social
Cherry Ripe - ootheca
February 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
handle.invalid
There's a mantis ootheca that I've been watching for a few months, and it just hatched. Tiny babies all over the fennel.
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
ibycter.bsky.social
Darkness also means it's time for roaches to come out! Look at this lovely one we found carrying an ootheca!
A brown, black and cream coloured roach with a big ootheca, on mossy bark. A brown, black and cream coloured roach with a big ootheca, on bare bark.
July 30, 2026 at 6:57 PM
ztul.bsky.social
Hi! Love your blog. ❤️ Could you post more pics of your spawning chamber? I think I recognize someone in the matting of the ootheca.
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
katieaki.bsky.social
relocated an ootheca, researched the ootheca, found out it was an invasive mantis, had a coworker put it in the freezer
Photo of a library card box in the freezer labeled “dead bug do not eat”.
March 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
ghola.bsky.social
more sg archive: orchid mantis puppies
ootheca baby manteis
June 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social
Female praying mantis producing an ootheca, the foam-like egg case that attaches to a plant stem. [📹Tropical Insects]

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June 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
litterpants-emmy.bsky.social
what if. What if ovipositor into diaper with good sensory kinda yucky ootheca,..,,..,.
October 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
jfire.bsky.social
How it started vs how it's going: A praying mantis crawling around our rosemary bush at the end of last summer and an ootheca (egg case) in the same bush that I found this afternoon.

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A green praying mantis sitting in a rosemary bush at the end of the summer. A brown praying mantis ootheca (egg case) in that same bush. Found it today.
March 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
tjalamont.bsky.social
I've been checking on this mantis ootheca (egg case) in my garden, just off the front porch, several times a day for weeks, and today the babies finally hatched. I watched the mother mantis lay these eggs last fall. It never gets old seeing the new generation arrive. 🐙 🌿
A macro photo of a cluster of many dozens of just-hatching mantis babies, still hanging together in a cluster, like a bunch of bananas. The cluster is suspended by threads just below the ootheca, or egg case. The new babies are mint green and orange, with dark eyes. The background is out of focus leaves.
May 2, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Illustration of a dubia roach (Blaptica dubia (F)) meeting a springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra (F)). You may not know it, but the humble cockroach and the noble mantis are close relatives! Blattodea (cockroaches and termites) and Mantodea (mantises) are sister groups in the superorder Dictyoptera. Both groups lay egg cases called ootheca, and they share several specific anatomical features.
September 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
clueless.bsky.social
oh hell yeah we got a mantis ootheca 🌱
mantis ootheca on a tree branch
July 8, 2023 at 9:08 PM
ffarmerabel.bsky.social
Just in time for horror/sci-fi movie season, a little green alien invaded my back porch.
This praying mantis deposited her egg sac on a cast iron, log cabin, candle holder. I learned that the sac is called an ootheca and hardens to protect her eggs through the winter.
October 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
bunnyloveerin.bsky.social
Yes! Yes! Keep em coming!!!!! #inverts
A fresh mantis ootheca, or egg case, on a branch Another picture of the ootheca
October 14, 2023 at 1:11 AM
bunnyloveerin.bsky.social
Next year's mantis crop will be bountiful #inverts
A close up picture of a Carolina mantis ootheca A zoomed out picture of a Carolina mantis ootheca
October 30, 2023 at 3:55 PM
dadrummond.art
Baby mantis! Tenodera sinensis young are now emerging from their egg case (ootheca) in our back yard! Almost a month later than their emergence last year. Gnats beware! #invertebrate
Slender brown mantis with large sea-foam eyes perched on the egg case from which it has just emerged.
June 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
vermyfox.bsky.social
@dizfoley.bsky.social pssst be jealous.
Ootheca
June 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
honeygloom.bsky.social
When life puts a football sized ootheca in your path, you become the mother of terror.

#horrorsky #horror #fiction #psychology #political #relationships #misogyny

honeygloom.substack.com/p/pandoras-o...
Pandora’s Ootheca
A short horror story about an adoptive mother's love for her strange children.
honeygloom.substack.com
October 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
bunnyloveerin.bsky.social
Huge win: first ootheca of the year #inverts
A mantis egg case on a tree trunk
January 16, 2024 at 8:15 PM
honeygloom.bsky.social
When life puts a football sized ootheca in your path, you become the mother of terror.

#horrorsky #horror #fiction #psychology #political #relationships #misogyny

honeygloom.substack.com/p/pandoras-o...
Pandora’s Ootheca
A short horror story about an adoptive mother's love for her strange children.
honeygloom.substack.com
October 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Found some mantis oothecae that have been patasitized by Podagrion wasps! 🌿🧪
A fresh-looking mantis ootheca, seen from the front. A fresh-looking mantis ootheca, seen from the side. Many small holes are visible in the sides of the eggs, indicating that they've been patasitized!
February 7, 2024 at 2:11 AM
yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social
Child forgets a praying mantis egg case (ootheca) in the car and hundreds of mantises hatch - one pod can hold up to 300 eggs
June 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
doodlebugsanimaladventures.com
Still waiting for these bad boys to hatch out!

California Mantis (ootheca)
(Stagmomantis californica)

Love finding them all over the place as they grow!

#inverts #ootheca #bugsky
Ootheca from a California Mantis (Stagmomantis californica)
March 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
gardeningkristi.bsky.social
What do we think, Carolina Mantis or European Mantis? Usually the Carolina ooths have a bicolored look. The more uniform coloring makes me think these might be a European Mantis ootheca. I typically see Carolina and Chinese mantis in my garden in the Philly burbs. #bugsky
Either European Mantis or Carolina Mantis ootheca are positioned on garden stakes. The ootheca are a warm tan color. The stakes are a gray color. You can see a garden bed and lawn in the background. Chinese Mantis ootheca are held on a gloved hand next to either European or Carolina Mantis ootheca. The Chinese Mantis ootheca are puffy and roundish in shape.
May 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM