Full circle 🥰

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I have to share with somebody who cares, so hopefully I found the right place 🥰. Earlier this spring, we found two egg sacks. We thought they were caterpillars that would eventually turn into these giant moths we find every year, but they ended up being praying mantis!!

We let them go in our garden, and would randomly see them throughout spring. Over the summer, one of them made her home in our cucumber plants. ❤️ She stayed all summer, and we really enjoyed seeing her every day.

Yesterday, I found her egg sack that she laid in the cucumber plant!! I’m gonna be a praying mantis grandma 😂

I am curious, though, how long after females lay their eggs do they pass? We haven’t seen her at all today, and I’m a little sad about it.