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A praying mantis adult female does its only duty to its young. This duty consists of guarding the egg case and laying it inside of a hardened protective case called an ootheca. Depending on the location, The Adult female then dies but the egg case is protected from all weather to the most part, except fire and too much water. In the rainforest, praying mantises live year long so they do guard the egg cases to the longest time possible. In the Western Hemisphere, the adult female dies two weeks after laying the egg case.

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