Ootheca Oops - Hold Airstrike - Praying Mantid Cases, Not Xenomorphs - Good Garden News

Another potential horror turns out to be very good news. A POSITIVE ID Proof-Of-Presence that will help define the range of this introduced pest killer. Some issues about surviving up here but dang if I didn't see the first one in my life in the yard. That vanished before I could return with a camera. Even better ...
I forgot about finding the other one on a machine frame but here are the images. Undeniably praying mantids (or mantis). And as noted, if I can stumble across three of them (plus have seen pieces of them elsewhere) it suggests a very healthy local population.
Barring the effects from the residual radiation.