"Chapter 2: Starting Over"
      
A Personal Journal by Andrew Burg

Anaheim, California, USA
Wednesday, 1 July 2009

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Now I'm REALLY a proud papa! Hundreds of tiny, tiny praying mantis emerged this morning. It was fleeting. By 10am they had walk, jumped or flown all over the vegetation looking for a hungry morsel. They're carnivores. Now I have to deal with snails that are chewing on our vegetable and flower leaves. No store carries the kind that eat other snails (more carnivores) and I don't want to use bait or poisons with young life around. Especially if I go buy some more lady bugs. So for now I'm picking them off one at a time and dropping each one into a jar of vinegar. Works like a charm. Slow and tedious --- but also free and effective.

 

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  See also June 29 for the initial hatchlings.

 

Short video on BENEFICIAL BUGS from Rogers Gardens.

Praying Mantis' hatching

 

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A "herd" (?) or praying mantis emerging from the nest. 

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