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I caught a mantis (looks like the Chinese mantis) here in Illinois a month or so ago and it just laid two ootheca before retiring to the big garden in the sky. We are approaching winter now and I’d like to hibernate the ootheca so that they hatch in the spring. If I leave them outside in a jar until the spring, will they survive even in during the sub zero months here? I really don’t want to have to take care of a couple hundred of these little guys through the long winter months. I'd like to hatch them in the spring and release them.