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I didn't have any luck on attempt number one but ima find another spot and try again. Also gonna plant the flowers that they nest on in your garden, thanks man!
It looks like mantids must be native to your area (or they have already moved into the area). I wanted to point out that they are not native to all parts of the US though, and could be harmful to bees, ladybugs, and other beneficial insects if introduced to non-native areas. I live near the San Juan islands in WA and found this article: http://www.sanjuanjournal.com/life/praying-mantis-beautiful-but-invasive/
Everything is cool until it start flying
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About the praying mantises (or would that be mantii?), how many mantises are in one of those nests? Do they tend to stay/nest in your garden area or do they move on and must be replaced?
We just moved to a place that has mantises and are excited about living near them. Just started my first garden today (winter), and must use containers to start. We'll be enriching our soil all winter long in anticipation for our foray into our own food forest.
That gives us all winter to find out which plants, trees, vegetables and seeds work best here in northern AZ.
I didn't have the courage to start but two things convinced me. The first was knowing we live on a fixed income in a food desert – no grocery stores within 15 miles. We need to start getting/growing food ASAP, and the other thing was the highly informative videos you're making. For those on a fixed income with travel issues, gardening isn't just pleasurable, it is a necessity. I believe everyone everywhere no matter what their circumstances would benefit from the food forest concept. It has become a better version of the Victory Gardens of the 1940's. With your info, I feel excited about the challenges ahead and look forward to sharing the results with you. Thank you for posting!
Blessings on you and yours!
Awesome and informative video… THANK YOU, Gardening Channel/ James Prigioni! I came here for the great info (thanks to the great title), and at the beginning of this video I noted the similarity in trees to my own local area… Then, while riding along in your car, I noted the familiar style of the residential-area houses. And then the actual location you walked to– raw, untamed local land near a highway– was EXACTLY like the local area I always used to visit (to connect with Nature & "God") since childhood here in coastal New England; with that old, Colonist plantation sorta vibe. So I'm glad to have found such good quality vids from my local (-enough) area… Subscribed! I've seen those pods but never knew what was in them; now I can't wait to snatch my own Mantis collection this Autumn, to keep for my garden next Springtime!
I NEED THEM
great info, thanks!
I would put canned cat food out for my cat and I found the praying mantises would come and eat it too!
I found a praying mantis in my garden and tried finding it again and couldn’t find it
This is amazing! I found some and harvested 2 thank you so much
Can you help me find ladybugs!?
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That's so awesome!!!
I've had to purchase my Mantid's because they aren't native in Northern Minnesota they are beneficial and are an amazing creature study and involving your kids in garden Science. Love them so much !!
I know this is an old comment but I found a baby praying mantis on my back but fell down and can't find him any tips
Crazy I can never find wild mantis ootheca idk how u can just find em like that wild
Excellent. Thank you.
I looked everywhere as to where to buy them. Expensive as hell! Thank you for this video!!! Now it will be an adventure that I will love doing this fall. Thanks!!!!!
So watching this as someone who's spent the last few days pretty heavily researching mantises, I can point out a few things on this video that might be helpful to future passers-through.
1. Praying mantises don't build nests. Those are called "Ootheca," and they start out as a froth produced by a female after she's mated. The froth acts like a can of foam insulation, starting wet and malleable and drying hard and tough.
2. The oothecae seen in this video are those made by the Chinese Mantis (Tenodera Sinensis), which was introduced accidentally to the eastern USA in the early 1900s. While technically considered invasive, they have since integrated into the ecosystem and have become a part of the food chain. Being small enough to be eaten by a medium sized bird helps with that. Also, chinese mantises produce several of these, so if you find three or even four or five relatively close together, they were all probably laid by one female. Just goes to show how many of them make it through the roughly 150 day growing period to make it the last couple months of their life to mate.
3. While mantis young (which start TINY, by the way) will eat aphids, as the season moves on into late spring and early summer, they grow too large to care about such small insects and may camp on flowers to eat butterflies as they get larger (particularly the chinese mantises, which are about the largest species in the US right now). So if you plan to introduce mantises to your garden, best to find out what species you're introducing and what kind of insects you feel comfortable with them eating.
4. You may be wondering, if you got this far, "How do I tell what species are native if all I have is the ootheca?" Well, as it turns out, the shape of each ootheca is unique to the species that lays it. Round half-spheres like this are unique to chinese mantises. Carolina mantises lay an ooth that is much longer and flatter, and prefer to make theirs on trees and rocks and buildings, which can make them a little harder to transport.
5. Just a fun fact, no mantis on earth lives longer than 18 months naturally. So each spring you will get all-new mantises, and you will never see the same one multiple years in a row. Most of the ones in the US are small and will only live from spring to late fall, with the ooths overwintering in cold climates, keeping the dormant young safe by being positioned in a sunny place and by being well-insulated because of the organic insulation it's made out of. Tying back into point number three, the mantis young will emerge from the ooth at the time when your new growth will be most susceptible to aphids, so you'll have a boost to aphid control for about four weeks while they are still tiny bebehs. After that though, the larger juveniles will be big enough to eat larger insects, like moths, small butterflies, ladybugs, and small beetles. If it's just aphids you want gone, better to use ladybugs, who will consume 90% aphids over the entire course of their lives.
Those tiny mantises omg litttt
I like Prey Mantises, always find them in my Citrus Tree.
What happens when the snow melts and those sticks fall to the ground??
So can I plant hazelnut tree in Malaysia?
Great video. The flying equivalent is the dragonfly, another ferocious yard ninja with lightning speed and great accuracy. An average human can see at a rate of 60 FPS but a dragonfly can see at a rate of 200 FPS, and it can detect and predict the trajectory and catch its prey in midair faster then a human can even react at all. And even as a larvae in the water it will eat anything that it can catch, such as mosquito larvae and/or other harmful pest insects.
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Those are Chinese mantis ootheca. Those are invasive (causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native. … Invasive species are capable of causing extinctions of native plants and animals, reducing biodiversity, competing with native organisms for limited resources, and altering habitats.).
Please do research on what the ootheca of our native mantis, Stagmomantis carolina, look like and the harm those that you have there cause to our environment, and please, please reconsider encouraging others to help propagate these ecologically harmful invasives, they should searched for but destroyed.
Garden pests your day has come. Now you will truly know what it means to fear. The tide of this war has turned.
I have home mantises and unjust saw one today and the mantis hide and he is green and little