Praying Mantis to Watch My Crops

Yeah I think they might eat the lady bugs. I hear the mantids eat everything, good bugs and bad bugs. Most of my lady bugs bounced after I released them. They stayed over night, and were there until the next afternoon. Now I see about 20 a day max in the whole garden. I did use a VERY SMELLY fish/seaweed fertilizer the next morning and coincidentally the ladies left, but I don't know the real reason. Probably like most say, they just do lol. Next time I might try doing what someone suggested to me once which was spraying the bugs down with a 20 part water to 1 part soda pop to make the wings stick together so they can't fly away. I hear it wears off in about 4-5 days so at that point they've done a lot of damage and are probably very comfortable to their new surroundings.

I also need help with whitflies!! I even put a fly killer lamp... it's killed a few btw but there seem to be more everyday. I did spray them with water and alcohol but it's just spreading even to other house plants. HELP!

i put two mantis eggs that were given to my by the hydro store...it was past their season, so the woman just gave them to me....had them in my yard for the whole month...nothin....put them in with my seedlings...guess what....mantis' praying all over the weed...ill wait till they are decent size and release them or ill just eat them....no not really...i have 2 plants and 00000 mantisssesssesss.....pix on instagram @ Tmurder1

dragons protect my crop