NASTYRUDEDOGG
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I just found a preying mantis in my living room and I want to give him a good home, I wonder if it would be okay to put him in my grow room? Just a thought.
Would a mantis be okay in my garden?
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NASTYRUDEDOGG
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I know that there are some animals that would be beneficial to an indoor grow room, I just don't know about the mantis, what would they eat? Hopefully not my plants.
NASTYRUDEDOGG
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I wonder what they would eat?
NirvanaLover
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they will eat spider mites white flies and many many other bugs but like some one else said with no food it will die
NASTYRUDEDOGG
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Alright, cool. I do have some white flies in there but they're so small I don't know if the mantis will catch them. Oh yeah, and while I was looking at it on my hand it took off and flew around in my living room, I had no idea that they could fly! This animal is cool as hell man.
Yes, mantis are good. They are considered a beneficial predatory insect. Also, if you ever see a bunch of ladybugs they are also good for your plants as they will eat the harmful pests. I have occasionally while working (I do construction) seen enormous hordes of ladybugs on the siding of some houses. I can't remember if it was cedar siding or what type of wood. So I don't know if they were attracted to the wood or perhaps more likely some small bugs in the wood. I dunno. But if I ever see that again I'm gonna get me a small jarful =D
NASTYRUDEDOGG
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yeah, I seen some ladybug nests or whatever at Home Depot for sale in the garden section, probably cost 5 bucks I think.
NASTYRUDEDOGG
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Yeah, I would. I also remember a preying mantis nest, I think, almost positive.
Seamaiden
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It IS. Last week, though, I witnessed something I haven't had the heart to repeat, it was so awful. Alien, as in the kind in the movie, the first one, with Sigourney Weaver, exists here on earth. In the insect world.Alright, cool. I do have some white flies in there but they're so small I don't know if the mantis will catch them. Oh yeah, and while I was looking at it on my hand it took off and flew around in my living room, I had no idea that they could fly! This animal is cool as hell man.
Last week my husband and I were chatting and smoking, he his tobacco and I my whacky, on the back deck. The sun was setting, and I looked over and noticed a large, green mantis on the window overhang, with this... "thing" sticking out of the side of its thorax. I peered more closely, it was distressed, and this "thing" looked like.. a cancer, a giant scab, something bad. I left it there, but we guessed something was very wrong.
The next morning it suddenly fell off, landing on its back. And the giant scab "thing" was open. It had been partially eaten from the inside out, but hadn't been injured enough to die immediately. I thought that since it was near the tail it might have enough guts to live, since it had lived through all that, but it didn't.
It was very gross and I hope to never see such a thing again.
NASTYRUDEDOGG
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Wow that's disgusting, too bad for the mantis.
The one I have is just a baby and it's really cool looking.
BCtrippin
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Mantis are great, They are predatory bugs, best used for controlling ladybugs and spiders if they get out of control, ladybugs obviously are used for smaller insects like spidermites.
You can actually buy boxes of ladybugs and mantis if you do a little research in your area, most greenhouse/garden supply stores should have info on getting some if they dont have them.
You can actually buy boxes of ladybugs and mantis if you do a little research in your area, most greenhouse/garden supply stores should have info on getting some if they dont have them.
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Seamaiden
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Aw, dude! I think I know his sister! And maybe his cousin, a brown one with streaky-stripes, too. 
We had close to a dozen mantises hanging on our back deck a couple of weeks ago, including one I called Twisty Butt (its butt twisted out from under its wings). Then, one morning, they were all gone. I said, "Bye little mantises and Twisty Butt! I hope I meet your children!" (I was totally into Charlotte's Web when I was a kid.)
The kind of mantis you DON'T want is a mantis shrimp. In some places they're also called Thumb Splitters. Just as smart as terrestrial mantises, but even more wicked. Peacock mantis shrimps are GORGEOUS.
We had close to a dozen mantises hanging on our back deck a couple of weeks ago, including one I called Twisty Butt (its butt twisted out from under its wings). Then, one morning, they were all gone. I said, "Bye little mantises and Twisty Butt! I hope I meet your children!" (I was totally into Charlotte's Web when I was a kid.) The kind of mantis you DON'T want is a mantis shrimp. In some places they're also called Thumb Splitters. Just as smart as terrestrial mantises, but even more wicked. Peacock mantis shrimps are GORGEOUS.