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Originally Posted by wayrad
Anybody know if there's more than one species in the US? If so, that might account for it.
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Yes, there are quite a few species. The coolest ones, IMO are the orchid mantids:
Check out
these and
these. Some look like tree bark, a green leaf or a brown leaf. I'm sure there are more, but they are pretty cool as far as bugs go.
I mentioned that I had them to the Grand Mantis acupuncturist, he started rattling off the ones he suspected it to be. I'm pretty sure my tree came from North Carolina, so whichever species is indigenous in that region is most likely which one it is. When I lived in NJ, the only ones I had seen were the true green ones, which were 4-5" long, and brown ones from 3-4" long.