Praying Mantis all over my outdoor grow!

So maybe 7 years ago or more when I was younger I put praying mantis eggs in a small pot on the side of my house, a week later they hatched and I got to watch them. 1000s of them were all around the yard.

7 years later, today, I look in my marijuana garden and I counted 16 baby praying mantis.

I have seen bigger ones around my house maybe a year ago, but I dont really look for them.

Now I have started to look for them and holy crap there are tons!

I wonder if these are from past generations of praying mantis that I hatched when I was like 15 or 16.

I have been doing research on these an I have learned that the babies eat spider mites, which is probably why they are on my plants, and they also like fruitflies, fungus gnats, worms, catapillers, basically anything smaller than them.

When they are bigger they eat fruitflies and other insects that are smaller than them.

I am happy to say that I am the father to 7-10 generations of praying mantis.

Before I saw these guys I was about to buy lady bugs, but now I have changed my mind.

I have seen these little guys at work on fungus gnats and it is pretty dope. I would recommend you growers to buy praying mantis eggs, because these things are probably the coolest creature to have in an outdoor or indoor grow. And they look like aliens.

Has anyone ever seen these creatures stick around there hatching zone? Especially 7 years later, because if they did that would be amazing.

Awasome! Mail me some so they can protect my girls till snow flys and kills everything j/k. Pretty sweet though, where'd you get the eggs?

they are incredible to watch and absolutely deadly hunters.

They where my biology class project when I was in highschool. We got 4 egg cases, which I think is around a thousand and we basically had to keep them alive for two weeks inside, but I just put mine outside and told my teacher I watched them grow and they all lived. He ended up asking for us to bring them in, so I just bought more and hatched them . We later found out he was doing this so he could feed them to the lizards and fish he had in his class. HAHA.

anyways I think you can get them on amazon?? I know you can get ladybugs on amazon, so I am guessing you can get praying mantis.

edit: http://www.amazon.com/Praying-Manti...UTF8&qid=1340340272&sr=8-5&keywords=lady+bugs

you can get two cases for like 17 dollars. Thats like 400.
Also dont under estimate them when they are full grown, these fuckers can fly, and very fast. They can also stab with there hands, which feels like when you cut yourself shaving.

$10 at OSH..2 eggs..got em on a shish kabob stick in a container waiting for them to hatch

HUSTLERBOY20 said:

$10 at OSH..2 eggs..got em on a shish kabob stick in a container waiting for them to hatch

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My bro who is a lawyer was reading this because he was over for my moms b-day and he laughed and said your signature would not hold up in a court. A federal attorney would tear that crap apart. He advices that you reword it, I asked him what would work better.

He said "By reading what I have written YOU declare that you are NOT affiliated with law enforcement to any degree. I also hereby declare, that all of the photos, information, and knowledge that I have written/given on this forum is false and misleading. I DO NOT GROW MARIJUANA, NOR AM I AFFILIATED WITH ANYONE WHO DOES OUTSIDE OF THIS FORUM/INTERNET."

He said the first one puts you in the clear because it is written there so if you ever where taken to court you can show your evidence and if the judge sees that it clearly said the first sentence then legally the person could not report it. There is a lot of wiggle room though, so if you add the rest you would be good.

Not trying to sound like a dick, just trying to make sure you dont get locked up ahaha.

beginner.legal.growop said:

My bro who is a lawyer was reading this because he was over for my moms b-day and he laughed and said your signature would not hold up in a court. A federal attorney would tear that crap apart. He advices that you reword it, I asked him what would work better.

He said "By reading what I have written YOU declare that you are NOT affiliated with law enforcement to any degree. I also hereby declare, that all of the photos, information, and knowledge that I have written/given on this forum is false and misleading. I DO NOT GROW MARIJUANA, NOR AM I AFFILIATED WITH ANYONE WHO DOES OUTSIDE OF THIS FORUM/INTERNET."

He said the first one puts you in the clear because it is written there so if you ever where taken to court you can show your evidence and if the judge sees that it clearly said the first sentence then legally the person could not report it. There is a lot of wiggle room though, so if you add the rest you would be good.

Not trying to sound like a dick, just trying to make sure you dont get locked up ahaha.

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If I were to get locked up it would be because some city gardener decided to get nosey, but I assume mexicans have a lot more to deal with then trying to explain in spanglish how there's plants in my back yard. And Im a Prop 215 card holder so I don't think I have much to worry about unless the Feds decide to bust low level people. The Signature was just a joke really. Thought Id write something stupid when I was younger.

HUSTLERBOY20 said:

If I were to get locked up it would be because some city gardener decided to get nosey, but I assume mexicans have a lot more to deal with then trying to explain in spanglish how there's plants in my back yard. And Im a Prop 215 card holder so I don't think I have much to worry about unless the Feds decide to bust low level people. The Signature was just a joke really. Thought Id write something stupid when I was younger.

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Well for anyone who wants to use that, go for it.. I dont need to because I am growing legally.

As am I