Using Praying Mantis in the Garden? - WATCH THIS FIRST 

I appreciate that you did your research because many gardening videos promote the Chinese Mantis and they are unknowingly doing more harm than good.

Thank you so much for this information! I actually have one of those Chinese Mantis eggs in my fridge and I was checking online about how to hatch the mantids when I happened upon your video. I am so very glad I did! Last year, I had many Monarch butterflies in my garden and this year, I have many finches and bluebirds and a Chinese Mantis is the LAST thing I want to release! I will be destroying that egg and have already ordered a Carolina Mantis egg. I will share your video far and wide as well. Thank you again!

Yes yes yes!! So glad to see this video!! My area also benefits from European mantis that are also smaller than Chinese mantis, they can eat bees but aren’t as impactful as Chinese mantis on pollinators

I am so glad you are stressing which Mantis is the correct one. I bought 2 Carolina Mantis Oothecas can’t wait til they hatch, thank you for showing how to attach it in the garden!

I just subscribed but there is no thumbs up button, there's just a thumbs down button with 474 thumbs down, unbelievable!. You may want to look into this.Thank you for posting this video, very helpful. Kudos to you!

This is awesome information, I had no idea!! I have to look into this and hopefully get some of these! Plus I think my boys would love to watch these hatch and watch them work in the garden!! Thanks!

This was really good information and so important. Thank you!

Thank you for the good info , really appreciate it...

Just now looking into adding mantis to my garden. So glad I found your and make sure I add the correct ones. I already have ladybugs and lacewings. I don’t want to upset those

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Fantastic video, thank you so much!!

Well shoot i wish I would have watched this first I just released them. Thanks for this info!

I did not know that, thank you for sharing 😊

Thank you so much for the information I am appreciative only Carolina mantises for a garden two thumbs up

Thanks for the info!

Great info.

the carolina mantis will also eat larger things like butterflies and bees... The hummingbird thing is not a regular occurrence. But mostly good information!

Thanks! This year, I'm trying something new with my Hibiscus: the praying mantis to protect it from Japanese/June Bugs/Emerald Beetles. Sitting out 24/7 to mash bugs can be a nightmare. Last year, I finally grew my prized Hibiscus to about 6ft tall with dinner plate-sized flowers in various shades, from light pink to deep reds. Last year, they turned a striking deep red! It's always amusing when people see them a different color every year You can play around with changing the colors, different factors like water and fertilizers

TY very much!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmm! I never thought of releasing other bugs to help the garden. Great video.

Thanks very much mate. Im actually in Melbourne Australia, so i shouldn’t get the Carolina mantis obviously. But you’ve made me realise I should go find out which mantis I should get fir my area- and especially you’ve taught me not to order the Chinese mantis !! Because I’m sure he would eat our lovely ladybugs etc snd butterflies etc too. I DONT want this. I have subscribed. I found you solid and grounded. I have just purchased a house in the country. Ive lived in a city apartment. My previous gardening experience ? - i have grown ONE pot plant in my kitchen for the last eighteen years. Its still alive. However its a species hard to kill. So I’m starting from absolutely nowhere. Ive picked out a range of vegetables and lemongrass that i want to grow to start. I picked vegetables which need similar drainage, soil type and ph, so that they can all grow together and its simple for me to treat them all the same. Well, here hies nothing. Thanks for your advice. I’m off to see which mantises i must get- and where is a RELIABLE HONEST source of them

Damn. I destroyed a couple of casings that looked like the good one you showed a month ago. I thought it was a moth cocoon. I came here today because I saw a huge mantis on one of my plants today. I started my garden years ago and this is the first one I've seen. So good.

Wow, very important info will share for sure.

I destroyed one of the bad eggs a couple years ago. Glad I did.

Just what I was looking for, I was wondering about mantis in the garden

I found your video while searching to see if the cocoons I noticed today were a praying mantis and they are. But I won't be killing them even though they are the large, Chinese mantis. A personal preference but I try not to kill anything and let nature take it's course. Besides, I love the look of those buggers and have never seen more than a few in my gardens over the years and I have been gardening for over 30 years here in the Midwest ☺

Wow. So important. We just got an eggcase from our garden to hatch indoors. Looks like your Carolina. We got around 50.

The mantis is is a good garden friend

How do you store them before placing out as well when do you put them out? Thank you for your time, Jon

LOVE IT

Good Job

You’re right I bought Chinese mantids from Amazon. Just released them. Crazy! We’ll see if birds get them. No real pollinators in my veggie garden so I’m wonder how far they can travel.

I was looking for info on ways to attract more to my garden. We have them all over here but I normally get 1-2 a year.

Always go native everywhere has native mantis check gotta do some research!

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But my backyard got some big cockroaches, do you think Caroline mantis can handle them? Chinese mantis handle them pretty easy and quick

But like, if given the opportunity the Carolina mantises also be eating humming birds.

Is July in zone 8a, Mississippi, too hot to hatch the eggs?

I use the Chinese ones to protect my weed plants

I wish I could release mantis here :'( You're all so lucky! Nice video, a few technical mistakes but nothing too serious 😆

Awesome video, what if I live in Southern California does the Carolina mantis apply as well?

Would the Carolinas eat my lady bugs? I have a bad caterpillar infestation in my cannabis plants. So next year was planning on a big mesh net and just letting them live in there. Any recommendations? Thanks

So using them in a indoor garden would matter what species you're have correct

Son of a BEE! I bought chinese and now i am going to get carolina. I wish they didnt eat honey bees. I was hoping to get a nice set up to start keeping bees soon. Where are you located? I am in Mass. Thank you

Can you share where you purchased yours? Looking for reputable sellers.

Awesome info I just bought mantis eggs and they are Chinese mantis 😫 definitely not releasing those!

The carolina mantis will eat the same things. Chinese praying mantis wont kill all your birds and butterflies. Rarely will they eat prey that large. Any praying mantis is better than chemicals.

This is native to the USA or North Carolina?

Nooooo😢 I just released the Chinese Mantis all over my plants. I got the egg in Lowe’s, why are they doing this? I usually have bees and humming birds 🤦🏽‍♀️. What have I done. I watched so many videos but none of them mentioned this. What can I do to fix it other than finding them and squishing them?

The praying mantis is a beneficial insect.

Can they survive North Dakota winters?

I bought the chinese ones and when I released them today the red ants are fighting them.

I just found a baby mantis in my garden

I have been studying mantises for a couple of years now and stumbled upon this video while I was looking for a neat pest control, while you did state facts which I find great, I would personally not recommend in destroying the Giant Chinese mantises ootheca’s, even though they are considered bugs, pests and invasive species as shown in your video, they are however somewhat intelligent and when you really think about it killing bugs that have not even hatched yet seems a bit inhuman, I have instead of killing these creatures donated them to a nearby exotic pet store, at the pet store they can be properly hatched and hopefully sent to a person capable of keeping them as a pet, or instead keep the ootheca in a container and once the praying mantises hatch keep one or two and donate the rest, usually the exotic pet stores should take them in unless they are out of room/supplies for the mantises, then you may kill them once all hope for saving them lost, to properly euthanize a praying mantis you should put them in a freezer where they will die a fast and not very slow death. (By the way this is not a hate comment it is just a simple suggestion)

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Wow! I had no idea. Crap!

Nah i want the bees eatin. So thanks for the chinese mantis promo😂

You neglect to mention that all praying mantises do not discriminate on what they eat so please please don't sit there and discriminate on a Chinese mantis even though all mantises will eat beneficial insects as well as bad insects

My friend's dad got the Chinese Mantis by mistake and they ate his dog.