Overview
- Reports describe hard, walnut-sized brown clumps on branch tips that can be mistaken for tiny pine cones as potential praying mantis egg sacs.
- Articles cite claims that each sac may contain roughly 100 to 200 eggs that could hatch indoors in warm conditions.
- The warning stems from Lexi Natoli’s widely shared TikTok video advising people to get rid of trees showing the clumps.
- Coverage emphasizes that the advice applies only to real trees and that encountering these egg sacs is uncommon in Britain.
- Public reaction included anecdotes of indoor hatchings and decisions to stick with reusable plastic trees.