Praying Mantis eggs....

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MisterJackson

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Last year I noticed our local "Feed and Seed" store had Praying Mantis and Lady Bug eggs for sale. They were out of Lady Bugs, so we only got the Mantis eggs. There were 4 of them and each egg is supposed to hatch 50 to 100 of the little boogers.

they were refrigerated when we got them to prevent hatching. All you have to do is take them home and leave them out, and in two weeks or so you've got an army of these things to do your bidding (our genetic mind control experiments went terribly awry and they revolted against us!).

seriously though, we put them in a ten gallon tank with a mesh lid. After two weeks nothing happened. We were disappointed :(. On the fourth week though, I walked by and noticed what looked like mold at first covering every part of the inside of the tank.

It was probably close to 1000 baby Praying Mantis bugs when I looked closer.

that was so freaking cool, and my son loved it. We released them and many months later would see one about every other day just chilling out in the yard.

I almost forgot, we had a bad mosquito problem before, but not after this! That was a plus.

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Cliffs:

- Buy praying mantis eggs and watch them hatch!

- Good for the environment, a natural pest control solution.


Do not release them unless you KNOW that the species is native to your area!!!!!
 
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Ramma2

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So you're telling me those things eat mosquitos? I'm so getting some this spring.
 
FoBoT

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Your ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I'll have to see if I can get some.
 
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MisterJackson

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Originally posted by: Ramma2
So you're telling me those things eat mosquitos? I'm so getting some this spring.
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I guess so. I had no more mosquito problems after that, and the Mantis feeds on other insects, sooo....
 
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MisterJackson

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
Your ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I'll have to see if I can get some.
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Yes sir! The letter is free, but shipping and handling is $99.95 ;). You also need $499.00 for our special decoder ring in order to read the newsletter. It keeps the pesky FBI from reading it :p
 
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Alone

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There's no way in hell I'm letting a thousand of these things hop around my yard.
 
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slpaulson

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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Last year I noticed our local "Feed and Seed" store had Praying Mantis and Lady Bug eggs for sale. They were out of Lady Bugs, so we only got the Mantis eggs. There were 4 of them and each egg is supposed to hatch 50 to 100 of the little boogers.

they were refrigerated when we got them to prevent hatching. All you have to do is take them home and leave them out, and in two weeks or so you've got an army of these things to do your bidding (our genetic mind control experiments went terribly awry and they revolted against us!).

seriously though, we put them in a ten gallon tank with a mesh lid. After two weeks nothing happened. We were disappointed :(. On the fourth week though, I walked by and noticed what looked like mold at first covering every part of the inside of the tank.

It was probably close to 1000 baby Praying Mantis bugs when I looked closer.

that was so freaking cool, and my son loved it. We released them and many months later would see one about every other day just chilling out in the yard.

I almost forgot, we had a bad mosquito problem before, but not after this! That was a plus.

Text

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Cliffs:

- Buy praying mantis eggs and watch them hatch!

- Good for the environment, a natural pest control solution.
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Just because they eat mosquitoes doesn't make the introduction of a foreign species a good thing for the environment.
 
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DaShen

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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Last year I noticed our local "Feed and Seed" store had Praying Mantis and Lady Bug eggs for sale. They were out of Lady Bugs, so we only got the Mantis eggs. There were 4 of them and each egg is supposed to hatch 50 to 100 of the little boogers.

they were refrigerated when we got them to prevent hatching. All you have to do is take them home and leave them out, and in two weeks or so you've got an army of these things to do your bidding (our genetic mind control experiments went terribly awry and they revolted against us!).

seriously though, we put them in a ten gallon tank with a mesh lid. After two weeks nothing happened. We were disappointed :(. On the fourth week though, I walked by and noticed what looked like mold at first covering every part of the inside of the tank.

It was probably close to 1000 baby Praying Mantis bugs when I looked closer.

that was so freaking cool, and my son loved it. We released them and many months later would see one about every other day just chilling out in the yard.

I almost forgot, we had a bad mosquito problem before, but not after this! That was a plus.

Text

Text

Cliffs:

- Buy praying mantis eggs and watch them hatch!

- Good for the environment, a natural pest control solution.
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NICE!!
 
MagnusTheBrewer

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Raising Mantis eggs is fun but, keep in mind the Mantis is the Raptor of the insect world. They eat any insect the right size including each other.
 
nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Alone
There's no way in hell I'm letting a thousand of these things hop around my yard.
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They're cool. A couple made their way into our house last summer, and we just let them hang out until they decided to leave after a few days.
 
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Alone

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Alone
There's no way in hell I'm letting a thousand of these things hop around my yard.
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They're cool. A couple made their way into our house last summer, and we just let them hang out until they decided to leave after a few days.
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Good morning, I'm gonna eat ur noze lol!
 
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skace

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Praying Mantis look so badass awesome. But I've never seen many of them up close and in person. I'd have to see some before deciding to unleash thousands of babies.
 
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Mantis is one of few bugs i don't find to be disgusting, they dont buzz around like fly, and crawling on your food like roaches, and wont do anything harmful to your stuff, and i dont mind having a few of them in my house to eat all the other disgusting bugs, as they always stay quite and stay away from you, but my place is simply too cold for them
 
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alien42

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Nov 28, 2004
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this reminds me of my sister finding a piece of wood with a knot in it that she brought home and put on her shelf. a few weeks later we found out the knot was full of walking stick eggs the hard way. my mom walked into my sisters room and there were thousands of baby walking sticks all over everything, including the walls.
 
rivan

rivan

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I've seen mantii (?) here before, but is there a map of their 'normal' range? I'd *love* to get some of these...
 
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