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Posted: Sep/15/2009 7:04 AM PST
Found this in the backyard. Tried like the dickens to examine it and the only thing it closely resembled was a "shell" of a praying mantis? I really dont know, any bug takers out there want to help me. 
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Posted: Sep/15/2009 7:25 AM PST
That is very interesting. Don't have a clue myself. |
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Posted: Sep/15/2009 1:01 PM PST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BflSI5mooK8 Could be, a praying mantis will shed its skin (molt) six or more times during its growth. |
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Posted: Sep/15/2009 5:21 PM PST
A walking stick?? |
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Posted: Sep/17/2009 5:46 AM PST
I tried that link told2b but it wont upload for some reason. I am leaning towards praying mantis but I need to checkout this walking stick? |
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Posted: Sep/17/2009 1:40 PM PST
Does a preying mantis have wings? Looks like part of a flying grasshopper to me. |
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Posted: Sep/17/2009 3:37 PM PST
Most scientist agree that mantises are related to grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches, and other members of the order of Orthoptera. Like these insects, mantises have mouth parts designed to chew food. They also have distinctive wings. The front pair usually thick and narrow, and the back pair thin and folded like a fan. Some scientists believe, however, that mantises are different enough from grass hoppers, crickets, and cockroaches to be given their own order, Mantodea. Karslinky is correct that walking sticks (Phasmatodea) molt too. |
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Posted: Sep/18/2009 5:32 PM PST
My guess is a praying mantis. As a teenager I had a pair and thought it would be neat to breed them and see the life cycle. One day I came home from school and found the male dead with no head. Shortly after, I found the egg case the female laid. Females will kill and sometimes eat the male after mating. Here is a link to a National Geographic article. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs /praying-mantis.html |
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Posted: Sep/19/2009 1:04 AM PST
I did NOT know that they had wings. Live and learn. I did know that they ate the males, so from that info, that's probably what it is. Poor thing. He gave up his life for posterity! |
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Posted: Sep/19/2009 7:14 AM PST
You guys are freaken awesome! Love it! |
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