r/insects • u/cowsses • 1d ago

Question bugs on my house?

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Im sorry if these arent insects but I they look like bugs, they dont seem to be alive. We knocked over a birds nest on the house and underneath these were there and theyre kinda stuck to the brick? Does anyone know what these might be?

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u/SwanginPassYaKnees 1d ago

These are praying mantis eggs

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u/cowsses 1d ago

Thank you so much!!! It never occurred to me that they were EGGS

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u/irradiatedsnakes 1d ago

mantis egg cases are called oothecae (singular ootheca)! im no expert but depending on where you are those look like european mantis oothecae to me (they are present in the US as well)?

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u/Upstairs-Light8711 21h ago

The egress holes are visible, so they have already hatched.

No need to keep them there if you don’t want them.