baby praying mantises hatched this weekend.
for scale: i think those leaves are rhododendron; the yellowish grains, are, of course, pollen.
note essentially normal looking mantis here, with more pollen:
and zooming out reveal it's really really tiny.
hope some of the little predators survive to procreate in the environ;
this bunch is from a salvaged and transplanted chrysalis to replace
the one that wasn't secreted among the leeward shrubs this past year.