{"id":4579,"date":"2022-08-30T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:05:06","slug":"praying-mantis-attacking-a-cicada-in-my-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Praying Mantis attacking a Cicada in my Backyard."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height:160%\">\n<font size=\"4\" face=\"arial\">It is a quiet week for Blog News. <br \/>\nSo here is what is happening in my backyard.<br \/>\nThere have never been this many Praying Mantises in my yard, and I always thought that they were beneficial in my Garden.<br \/>\nHowever, according to my research, this species is the Invasive Chinese Mantis. They have killed 5 Monarch Butterflies in my yard this year, and those are just the ones I know about. This one was waiting for another Monarch on one of my milkweeds and just happened to catch this unlucky cicada instead.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uMOOacbPUMc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:160%\">\n<font size=\"4\" face=\"arial\">Here are some articles about this garden inhabitant and info on how to distinguish this species from our own native Carolina Mantises, and identify their egg sacs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandywine.org\/conservancy\/blog\/preying-invasive-mantis-egg-masses\">www.brandywine.org\/conservancy\/blog\/preying-invasive-mantis-egg-masses<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umd.edu\/resource\/praying-mantid-mantis\">https:\/\/extension.umd.edu\/resource\/praying-mantid-mantis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/colinpurrington.com\/2019\/03\/identifying-mantid-egg-cases-pennsylvania\/\">https:\/\/colinpurrington.com\/2019\/03\/identifying-mantid-egg-cases-pennsylvania\/<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a quiet week for Blog News. So here is what is happening in my backyard. There have never been this many Praying Mantises in my yard, and I always thought that they were beneficial in my Garden. However, according to my research, this species is the Invasive Chinese Mantis. They have killed 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}