Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantidae: Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
Common Name: Chinese Mantid, female
Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: n/a
Date: 21 September 2001
Photographer: D. S. Kjar
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Collector: not applicable
Location: Georgetown University Ecology Laboratory Butterfly Garden
Keywords: A praying mantis mantid GU ecology invasive species Additional Information: I found this mantid on the steps of the Observatory. It was laying on its back and nearly frozen. I brought it inside for pictures, and it warmed up and quickly began laying eggs. The second movie is of the egg laying process.
A single egg mass will produce hundreds of these alien invasive organisms.
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