It must be spring
Because the next generation of praying mantises are back, as in "little babies".
Tonight while dusting off my front porch chair to sit down, there was a whole grouping of them around my chair and jade plant. I had to look very closely because they looked just like little green bugs. Then, while checking out the little garden out front, I noticed what looked like a little wasp's nest in the fern bush. And lo and behold, it's a mantis egg casing, probably laid by last season's mantis that came by to visit me. This will be cool watch that one <hatch.>