This might be an "EWWW" post for some of you, but the praying mantises hatched today. I just happened to be digging in the garden and I had been watching this "pod" or whatever it is, since last fall. I was digging right by this cage and there they were...hundreds of them, very tiny. The glob that is hanging down out of the pod is nothing but praying mantises (or whatever the plural is). Yes, I got excited, but you know, that's just me...I should have no pests in my garden this year...