Sadie (6) sent in this story about her pet praying mantis – Molly.
At the end of last autumn, I found a praying mantis and kept her for a pet. Then she laid eggs in a foam called ootheca which I think is a cool word! We found out she eats flies, caterpillars and worms ð. She laid three ootheca and we waited for them to hatch in spring.
While Molly sadly passed away, her ootheca hatched – the baby praying mantises were tiny and we expected them to be green, but they were brown / transparent. We popped them in our herb garden because we have an aphid problem and weâre hoping they will help us control them.Â
