This was such a darling video!! I was laughing and loving it. You were just mesmerizing as you told all about your experience. I saw a mantis eat a honey bee once so would personally not want too many in my garden.
I have had preying mantis over. the years ... and would not buy. egg cases again because in my yard their primary food source is bumble bees. I have decided I want more bumble bees and less Mantis. I see or find a few a year now... but just let them alone and cheer on the bumble bees. Love your channel.
Yeah I’m thinking I may give the cases away next time….depends on how things go this year. I don’t really have a pest issue (except mouse at times) to really be introducing mantis here…They don’t eat mealybugs or adphids once the mantis get big too. Think I originally liked the idea of having “pets” or “wildlife” in the garden.
I frequently find them in my garden in the late spring (right now) as hatchlings and relocate them immediately to various areas to deter them from cannibalizing each other. Kind of interesting to watch them hunt and interact with the world around them.
@@wendiland I have never seen them actually eat a bee or ladybug but I have seen them eat hover flys and lacewings. They definitely hunt anything that moves so I would imagine anything catchable is on the dinner plate. I have several different target areas in my garden prone to cabbage moths and grasshoppers and rehome any baby mantis there to defend their own territories and hopefully avoid any collateral damage.
Hello ☺️ Thanks for the great video! If you're in the US, please just make sure you get the NON-INVASIVE CAROLINA MANTIS. NOT the highly invasive Chinese mantis!! Great video on how to raise them. Thanks much!
Finally someone mentioned this warning!!! Why didn’t she post that anywhere?!?!?? 😩😩🤬🤬 sooo frustrating. They’re becoming a HUGEEE issue to the environment after the garden boom.. and since “buying “beneficial” bugs on Amazon” became popular 🙄 sometimes.. I dislike the internet 😩
Hi Wendi. I’m a new subscriber. Found you through John of Grow your own Greens. You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your knowledge n bringing us along on your journey. I wanted to share a hose I recently purchased and so excited (lol excited about a hose who would’ve thought) but I love it!s so light weight and doesn’t kink. No more fighting with my old heavy hose that would kink up. The best thing though is that is Water drinking safe! So together with my Boogie Brew Plus filter I feel great about the water quality on my plants when I don’t have collected rain water Just thought I share it with you. Maybe you are aware of FLEXZILLA
They lover cucumber bushes and trellises for large tomatoes and bushy pepper plants. They need camouflage and vantage points to make them residents in your garden
They are solitary hunters, spread them out asap, they also are vulnerable to death by eating, their eyes are bigger then their stomachs. Don't worry too much about your pollinators, mantis can fly but they don't hunt while flying, they are ambush predators who rely on camouflage, and whatever walks by they try to catch. They kinda fearless, maybe a little too courageous, and sometimes their prey turns them into dinner.
Praying mantis are generalist killers so as long as you have a balanced ecosystem in your yard. It will be fine. This is a part of life. Just as aphids move into my garden so too does the ladybugs. Everything has a purpose.
Yes I love this video! But I noticed u had I think a milkweed plant, and if u get monarch eggs u better cover it up if u love butterflies. Thanks for living and enjoying our outdoor beautiful life that God has given us!!! LP
Hi Windi interesting video hope they help your garden 🪴. Never knew about this you have a lot of patience all that you did with them. Your hair is looking great 😊
I got pretty good at catching little flies with a container…lol I had little more free time after freeing the mantis, but sort of missed feeding time bonding.
Mantis eat anything they catch, but the bigger they get the bigger insects they prey I assume. If you find a mantis, see if you can place it in the problem areas. Be careful getting slashed!
Awesome Video Wendi! Praying Mantis are very mean! I would not let them live in my garden! I have seen Praying Mantis killing Baby birds and everything else they can kill! In the spirit world praying mantis are a bad sign! Good luck with your Mantis! Keep the videos coming!
I just saw this video and apparently the garden stores are selling the wrong praying Mantis. They are selling Chinese Mantis which are invasive and you should release Carolina Mantis instead. The Chinese Mantis are bigger and do eat pollinators which is not good, whereas the Carolina are smaller and only eat invasive insects. I wish I knew this before I released all these guys, but hopefully since they weee babies, the birds got to them before they grow. ua-cam.com/video/29Epih6JCwY/v-deo.html
Mantis in the garden eat everything including lizards frogs and if you have a pond they can take small fishes and newts. but it´s in thery´re nature..🤕😅
Absolutely could not believe that 🤦♀️ hopefully all the mantis d*ed.. because ZERO mention of the Chinese mantis. Which.. at the time this vid was recorded, were basically the ONLY species that were available online when buying eggs 🙄🤬 they’re EXTREMELY invasive and horrific for the environment. They were aCciDeNtaLLy released here from Asia.. and have had huge negative affects on many US ecosystems ever since. This bish prolly just released a bunch into the wild to wreak havoc 🙄🙄🙄 again, if they even survived cause she did a terrible job at that anyways..
Even small dogs. Some times if the eggs are near a swamp area they can grow up to 5ft in length and have been known to attack people and carry away small children.
Only the bigger species, and they can kill birds, reptiles and mammals as long as they are small enough, they can about kill something thrice their size.
_The world's largest praying mantis is the Chinese Mantis, recorded to be approximately 7.08 inches (18cm) long, found in Southern China in 1929._ *Chinese mantis* _(Tenodera sinensis), a species of mantis native to Asia, was_ *accidentally introduced* _near Philadelphia in the USA._ Best thing to know about them is: the Chinese mantis is *EXTREMELY INVASIVE* and they’re destroying the native species/environment here in the US. I really hope the girl in this vid didn’t buy and release a whole buncha them into the wild 😩 The fact that she didn’t even _mention_ anything about this invasive species makes me think that’s *exactly* what she did 😓 they’re becoming a huge issue. Any “mantis eggs” you find online and Amazon are *ALL* Chinese mantis.. all that I saw last time I looked. Makes me so sad 😭 and frustrated. And quite angry tbh. People need to stop messing with nature/entire ecosystems by buying creatures online to release to the wild!!! When I was a kid.. that was a huge no-no. (ie releasing store bought fish, reptiles, frogs, turtles, birds, etc. into the wild.. for this *exact* reason) idk wtf changed 😔💔 why do you think many _never_ see a single ladybug in their garden?? One of the most beneficial bugs, right next to bees, for the environment. And the business of selling refrigerated ladybugs online has blown up so much? 🙄 *BECAUSE WE’VE DESTROYED THE ENVIRONMENT!!* I bet this whole “garden boom” after cv is the reason the Chinese mantis are becoming sucha ginormous issue now. If people *REALLY* cared about gardening/the environment.. they would do their due diligence and five seconds of research to understand the possible harm they could be causing. We’re in the age of information. This shit literally takes all of about five minutes to learn all you need to know. I just don’t get it.. I really don’t 😓
I love praying mantis, one got on my wife's hair and she freaked out. I picked it up and put it outside in our garden.
Excellent Video 😊🎉 So excited because I have been seeing Praying Mantis in my yard Garden 🏡 Thank you for sharing 🙏
This was such a darling video!! I was laughing and loving it. You were just mesmerizing as you told all about your experience.
I saw a mantis eat a honey bee once so would personally not want too many in my garden.
I have had preying mantis over. the years ... and would not buy. egg cases again because in my yard their primary food source is bumble bees. I have decided I want more bumble bees and less Mantis. I see or find a few a year now... but just let them alone and cheer on the bumble bees. Love your channel.
Yeah I’m thinking I may give the cases away next time….depends on how things go this year. I don’t really have a pest issue (except mouse at times) to really be introducing mantis here…They don’t eat mealybugs or adphids once the mantis get big too. Think I originally liked the idea of having “pets” or “wildlife” in the garden.
I frequently find them in my garden in the late spring (right now) as hatchlings and relocate them immediately to various areas to deter them from cannibalizing each other. Kind of interesting to watch them hunt and interact with the world around them.
I see. Mine probably ate each other out because they were in the same space. Do you find that they eat any of your pollinators?
@@wendiland I have never seen them actually eat a bee or ladybug but I have seen them eat hover flys and lacewings. They definitely hunt anything that moves so I would imagine anything catchable is on the dinner plate. I have several different target areas in my garden prone to cabbage moths and grasshoppers and rehome any baby mantis there to defend their own territories and hopefully avoid any collateral damage.
Hello ☺️ Thanks for the great video! If you're in the US, please just make sure you get the NON-INVASIVE CAROLINA MANTIS. NOT the highly invasive Chinese mantis!! Great video on how to raise them. Thanks much!
Finally someone mentioned this warning!!! Why didn’t she post that anywhere?!?!?? 😩😩🤬🤬 sooo frustrating. They’re becoming a HUGEEE issue to the environment after the garden boom.. and since “buying “beneficial” bugs on Amazon” became popular 🙄 sometimes.. I dislike the internet 😩
Thank you for that warning! God bless you. 🙏🏻
Hi Wendi. I’m a new subscriber. Found you through John of Grow your own Greens. You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your knowledge n bringing us along on your journey. I wanted to share a hose I recently purchased and so excited (lol excited about a hose who would’ve thought) but I love it!s so light weight and doesn’t kink. No more fighting with my old heavy hose that would kink up. The best thing though is that is Water drinking safe! So together with my Boogie Brew Plus filter I feel great about the water quality on my plants when I don’t have collected rain water Just thought I share it with you. Maybe you are aware of FLEXZILLA
They lover cucumber bushes and trellises for large tomatoes and bushy pepper plants. They need camouflage and vantage points to make them residents in your garden
They are solitary hunters, spread them out asap, they also are vulnerable to death by eating, their eyes are bigger then their stomachs.
Don't worry too much about your pollinators, mantis can fly but they don't hunt while flying, they are ambush predators who rely on camouflage, and whatever walks by they try to catch. They kinda fearless, maybe a little too courageous, and sometimes their prey turns them into dinner.
Good afternoon 👋
Hola! Happy Gardening!
Super cute and handy
Praying mantis are generalist killers so as long as you have a balanced ecosystem in your yard. It will be fine. This is a part of life. Just as aphids move into my garden so too does the ladybugs. Everything has a purpose.
Yes I love this video! But I noticed u had I think a milkweed plant, and if u get monarch eggs u better cover it up if u love butterflies. Thanks for living and enjoying our outdoor beautiful life that God has given us!!! LP
Which type of praying mantises did you get (Chinese or Carolina or some other variety) and how big do they get when full grown?
“nymphs eat each other out”. That’s definitely good to know! Lol
Yeah still i’m a little disturbed. haa
I love eating out 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻
Thanks!
Thank you Mark!
I really like your video 😀
Had an adult female rip my finger open when she felt threatened by me. They are amazing little monsters.
Yikes!! And they said they can’t hurt humans…those arms look scary. Hope it didn’t leave a scar!
@@wendiland nope no scar. Just a lesson. Lol
Hi Windi interesting video hope they help your garden 🪴. Never knew about this you have a lot of patience all that you did with them. Your hair is looking great 😊
I got pretty good at catching little flies with a container…lol I had little more free time after freeing the mantis, but sort of missed feeding time bonding.
Good, wendy
Do you kill it sometimes and how ?
I always have a problem with squash bugs and I don't know if anything eats them.
Mantis eat anything they catch, but the bigger they get the bigger insects they prey I assume. If you find a mantis, see if you can place it in the problem areas. Be careful getting slashed!
THEY EAT BIRDS??
Awesome Video Wendi! Praying Mantis are very mean! I would not let them live in my garden! I have seen Praying Mantis killing Baby birds and everything else they can kill! In the spirit world praying mantis are a bad sign! Good luck with your Mantis! Keep the videos coming!
They are not mean, in fact your birds are often worse, birds can be real assholes.
I just saw this video and apparently the garden stores are selling the wrong praying Mantis. They are selling Chinese Mantis which are invasive and you should release Carolina Mantis instead. The Chinese Mantis are bigger and do eat pollinators which is not good, whereas the Carolina are smaller and only eat invasive insects. I wish I knew this before I released all these guys, but hopefully since they weee babies, the birds got to them before they grow. ua-cam.com/video/29Epih6JCwY/v-deo.html
Mantis in the garden eat everything including lizards frogs and if you have a pond they can take small fishes and newts. but it´s in thery´re nature..🤕😅
She killed the mantis and flies lol. I got too busy, aka, I spent hours or days leaving the insects in hot weather lol.
Absolutely could not believe that 🤦♀️ hopefully all the mantis d*ed.. because ZERO mention of the Chinese mantis. Which.. at the time this vid was recorded, were basically the ONLY species that were available online when buying eggs 🙄🤬 they’re EXTREMELY invasive and horrific for the environment. They were aCciDeNtaLLy released here from Asia.. and have had huge negative affects on many US ecosystems ever since. This bish prolly just released a bunch into the wild to wreak havoc 🙄🙄🙄 again, if they even survived cause she did a terrible job at that anyways..
Are they chinese praying mantis?
Did you just say a praying mantis could eat a hummingbird???!
Even small dogs. Some times if the eggs are near a swamp area they can grow up to 5ft in length and have been known to attack people and carry away small children.
Only the bigger species, and they can kill birds, reptiles and mammals as long as they are small enough, they can about kill something thrice their size.
_The world's largest praying mantis is the Chinese Mantis, recorded to be approximately 7.08 inches (18cm) long, found in Southern China in 1929._ *Chinese mantis* _(Tenodera sinensis), a species of mantis native to Asia, was_ *accidentally introduced* _near Philadelphia in the USA._
Best thing to know about them is: the Chinese mantis is *EXTREMELY INVASIVE* and they’re destroying the native species/environment here in the US. I really hope the girl in this vid didn’t buy and release a whole buncha them into the wild 😩 The fact that she didn’t even _mention_ anything about this invasive species makes me think that’s *exactly* what she did 😓 they’re becoming a huge issue. Any “mantis eggs” you find online and Amazon are *ALL* Chinese mantis.. all that I saw last time I looked.
Makes me so sad 😭 and frustrated. And quite angry tbh. People need to stop messing with nature/entire ecosystems by buying creatures online to release to the wild!!! When I was a kid.. that was a huge no-no. (ie releasing store bought fish, reptiles, frogs, turtles, birds, etc. into the wild.. for this *exact* reason) idk wtf changed 😔💔 why do you think many _never_ see a single ladybug in their garden?? One of the most beneficial bugs, right next to bees, for the environment. And the business of selling refrigerated ladybugs online has blown up so much? 🙄 *BECAUSE WE’VE DESTROYED THE ENVIRONMENT!!* I bet this whole “garden boom” after cv is the reason the Chinese mantis are becoming sucha ginormous issue now.
If people *REALLY* cared about gardening/the environment.. they would do their due diligence and five seconds of research to understand the possible harm they could be causing. We’re in the age of information. This shit literally takes all of about five minutes to learn all you need to know. I just don’t get it.. I really don’t 😓
Oh.. and btw, that is the ONLY species that eats birds 🙃🙃🙃
There is no way a prey mantis is going to eat a bee or hummingbird on planet earth lol. Or a lizard.
Lol how wrong you are. Just Google it and you'll see how wrong