Mantids. Is it too late?

[aartamen]

Is it too late to get some egg cases now, so they'll mature and lay their own eggs? I live in NJ and it's the middle of August.

[madgardener]

[LeeAnne]

I've noticed a serious lack of frogs and toads about my yard this year. Usually I have Wood Frogs fleeing from my lawn mower about this time of year and I have a leopard frog or two and another I can't remember that hang about my bird splashing pool. I heard them in the spring, but haven't seen them around.

LeeAnne

[Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D. P.A.]

Are you in the northeast? Blame this year's rotten weather. The tadpoles were probably killed off by a late freeze.