Found this lovely in the shed and moved her outside. That round belly
means she’s full of eggs and will lay them soon, to hatch in the spring.
Yay! We used to see mantises all the time — now it’s rare. Thanks to
urban infill and the dadgum mosquito-sprayers. A guy was spraying my
neighbor’s bushes for mosquitoes and had this logo on his business van:
“GREAT FOR KIDS AND PETS!” I bet. Anyway, mosquitoes breed in water,
not bushes – ???