Will the leaves falling off break open the egg? Should I try and remove it and preserve it somehow?Looks like praying mantis egg vessel. Get ready for thousands of little transparent mantisessesi
Leave it be. It is not soft and fluffy as it looks. It is designed by nature and will do best on its own.Will the leaves falling off break open the egg? Should I try and remove it and preserve it somehow?
LET IT ALONE. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Praying mantids have been doing perfectly well without human assistance for hundreds of millions of yearsWill the leaves falling off break open the egg? Should I try and remove it and preserve it somehow?
im just afraid that the integrity of the egg case will break open once those leaves fall off in 10 days and the flowers buds bloom in February. I wish it had laid the nest on one of my maples as Winterhazel doesn't have aphids on it in the spring.Definitely mantis egg case. They have been doing it without help for millions of years. This one will probably manage without intervention too.
If you need to prune that stem just leave it outside somewhere. They don't care if the branch is alive or attached to a live tree or not.
Seeing the babies as or after they hatch is a treat.
It will be fine. That entire thing is hardening for winter. It's technically called an "ootheca" Latin for "a place to keep." Messing with it can harm it more than anything it will encounter during the winter.im just afraid that the integrity of the egg case will break open once those leaves fall off in 10 days and the flowers buds bloom in February. I wish it had laid the nest on one of my maples as Winterhazel doesn't have aphids on it in the spring.