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What is this gold-colored hardened foam on my lavender?

Elizabeth Faucher

last year

Discovered in late fall, backyard in Massachusetts, foam is hard to the touch - can't see any insect evidence, smells only of lavender. Some kind of bee thing? Construction synthetic? Google searching keywords "lavender golden foam" points to spittle bugs, whose foam looks uniformly white, wet, and unsolid.

Thanks!

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beesneeds

last year

Praying mantis egg case?

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Elizabeth Faucher
Original Author
last year
Thanks so much - that looks extremely correct to me! Better get it back outside, quick! 😅 If anyone is looking for the search term it's: ootheca.
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cecily 7A
last year
If it's a Chinese mantis egg case, please destroy it. Thanks for double checking.
Jay 6a Chicago
last year
last modified: last year
I was going to say what Cecily said. If it's a Chinese mantis egg case, please destroy it. They are an invasive insect that eat our native mantis and will also kill and eat hummingbirds. Your's definitely looks Asian. I had a few beautiful garden spiders, Argiope aurantica, that mysteriously disappeared, and I believe they became mantis food. Actually they don't kill their prey first, they eat them alive, and no need to feel guilty, because they decapitate and eat their own lovers.
Elizabeth Faucher
Original Author
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Eek! For the moment the case is outside in a Mason jar--no lid, however. How does one tell if mine is "native" mantis or Chinese? IS there a way before they start breaking out of their nest??
Jay 6a Chicago
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I googled it. Asian mantis cases are more roundish, while the native Carolina mantis egg cases are more long and narrow. Just Google it for photos.
Elizabeth Faucher thanked Jay 6a Chicago
tete_a_tete
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I didn't expect to have a clue what the answer to this question was, but it looks like a mantis egg case. However, it doesn't look like the one I know - the very nice praying mantis. So I'm suspecting it's the baddie.
Elizabeth Faucher thanked tete_a_tete
Elizabeth Faucher
Original Author
last year
Wow! Thanks all for taking the time to direct me towards what I need to know about this strange "case"!!! I foresee a nice long Winter of research! Meanwhile, I'll get on the job of removing the nest to a safe, lidded location and make sure our neighbours are NOT flooded with tiny mantises!!!
cecily 7A
last year
The Carolina mantis is a much smaller animal and doesn't make golf ball sized cases. Measure your egg case and you've got an answer.

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