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I have a ? what do the mantis eat if there are no pest,EACH other or the plants as I thought the only time they eat each other is after sex,female eats males head(BAD SEX)lol
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Precious Predators - the Praying Mantid/Mantis
- Thread starter highonthechroni
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they're cannabalistic - so they'll eat each other if there's no food, heh heh.. 
2buds
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I'm wondering about food too (edit) after they have eaten all the pests.
I geuss you go get'em a mouse from the store.:smile:
I'm hoping a few lady bugs and a mantis will take care of pesky pests. Maybe you can take the mantis for a walk under the flood lights at nite for a little feeding while the garden is all cleaned up.
As for what they do in a garden, they eat every insect that would jeopordize the succesful completion of a grow, that could end like mine with insects sucking the life juice from my beautiful ladies and ending a long term comittment we made to each other but the borgs came and cut her throat, whoa, got carried away. It was a painful loss to say the least.
As for where to buy, search for beneficial insects. Look for a vendor close to you if possible, less transit time.
I was told by the seller of the ladybugs that they will arrive in a bag(1500), place it in the refrigerator for a few hours, they will look dead. Take a spoon full out and release 3-4 per plant each day(evening) till things are under control. Supposedly they(ladybugs) will keep in the fridge for up to 4 weeks. Hell I'm looking at it as an investment in my health, I sure as hell don't want to smoke bud killer just killer bud,:smile: nor do I want a heart attack from the surge of vengence that flowed through my veins to kill kill kill the pesky insects.
Yes I have read they will eat each other when they encroche on one anothers space and the female eats the males head during mating yet he is still able to perform. Now wouldn't that be every womans dream come true, no lies out of the big head just satisfaction from the little head.
Yes, mi gramurr suks.
Peace,2buds
I geuss you go get'em a mouse from the store.:smile:
I'm hoping a few lady bugs and a mantis will take care of pesky pests. Maybe you can take the mantis for a walk under the flood lights at nite for a little feeding while the garden is all cleaned up.
As for what they do in a garden, they eat every insect that would jeopordize the succesful completion of a grow, that could end like mine with insects sucking the life juice from my beautiful ladies and ending a long term comittment we made to each other but the borgs came and cut her throat, whoa, got carried away. It was a painful loss to say the least.
As for where to buy, search for beneficial insects. Look for a vendor close to you if possible, less transit time.
I was told by the seller of the ladybugs that they will arrive in a bag(1500), place it in the refrigerator for a few hours, they will look dead. Take a spoon full out and release 3-4 per plant each day(evening) till things are under control. Supposedly they(ladybugs) will keep in the fridge for up to 4 weeks. Hell I'm looking at it as an investment in my health, I sure as hell don't want to smoke bud killer just killer bud,:smile: nor do I want a heart attack from the surge of vengence that flowed through my veins to kill kill kill the pesky insects.
Yes I have read they will eat each other when they encroche on one anothers space and the female eats the males head during mating yet he is still able to perform. Now wouldn't that be every womans dream come true, no lies out of the big head just satisfaction from the little head.
Yes, mi gramurr suks.
Peace,2buds
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BLunTeD4LifE
Member
chronic... really nice post man...
but unfortunatly i couldnt have any predator bugs running around on my plants... because i am shit scared of things like that... and if there was praying mantis beside my plants i wouldnt go near my garden!!!!
they look really freaky IMO... i really would run a mile if i seen one of them walking accross my plants with those beady eyes!!!
i could maybes handle ladybirds as they are cute little bugs... but not mantids!!
i think this pic is really awesome though,...
but unfortunatly i couldnt have any predator bugs running around on my plants... because i am shit scared of things like that... and if there was praying mantis beside my plants i wouldnt go near my garden!!!!
they look really freaky IMO... i really would run a mile if i seen one of them walking accross my plants with those beady eyes!!!
i could maybes handle ladybirds as they are cute little bugs... but not mantids!!
i think this pic is really awesome though,...
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stickyickyicky
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BLunTeD4LifE said:
AHHHHHHH YEAH ME TOO! THOSE BASTARDS ARE SCARY AS SHIT!!! I'D PROLLY RATHER HAVE a tiger or a bear in my cab before i put one of those things in there....
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If ya want a good one for all round use
If ya want a good one for all round use
Lacewings, seems the way to go.
I get all the predator bugs right at my back door as they come out of the ravine forest behind my house.3 years ago there were so many ladybugs that I used the shopvac 2-3 times a day for about 3 months whenever the sun heated up the siding,to clear the windows in the house of the GODDAMN --- ER ---I mean pretty little ladybugs.
The ladybugs(red not orange,orange are japanese type n they bite humans.) work quite well on mites and aphids.Never tried the mantis but will be scouting for em next year.
Lacewing which I just discovered online are said to be all around good predators.
So if any squirmish people wanna try something with their ladybugs then lacewings seem like a great alternative.
Here is a link for them
http://www.growquest.com/Greenlacewing_info..htm
Heres my guard in a c-24 .
If ya want a good one for all round use
Lacewings, seems the way to go.
I get all the predator bugs right at my back door as they come out of the ravine forest behind my house.3 years ago there were so many ladybugs that I used the shopvac 2-3 times a day for about 3 months whenever the sun heated up the siding,to clear the windows in the house of the GODDAMN --- ER ---I mean pretty little ladybugs.
The ladybugs(red not orange,orange are japanese type n they bite humans.) work quite well on mites and aphids.Never tried the mantis but will be scouting for em next year.
Lacewing which I just discovered online are said to be all around good predators.
So if any squirmish people wanna try something with their ladybugs then lacewings seem like a great alternative.
Here is a link for them
http://www.growquest.com/Greenlacewing_info..htm
Heres my guard in a c-24 .
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Gotta laugh , that mantis reminds me of the KARATE KID mutated with JOSEPH AND HIS TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT.
Damn nice pic of that stunning mantis. Where is this mantis from? Never seen them that color. We have the green and brownish grey type only.
I had mantis for days in my outdoor veggie garden. I like the fact of putting one or two in the indoor garden, also lady bugs.
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yeah Dan, they're somewhat protected on the east coast. i think that's because they're beneficial insects and/or rare.
side story - i painted my grandmothers tool shed last summer and one of these praying mantis' came by to see what i was doing. it leaped off the side of the shed and into the roller pan. it got covered in blue paint, so i took a stick and got him out. 2 minutes later he was 6 feet away from me frozen solid on top of a big blade of grass. ha ha ha
i feel sorry for what happened, but it was his fault.
they're pretty cool insects, but i'm not a fan of insects that much, they creep me out.
they sway side to side as if to look like a leaf or something in the wind. these things, being able to eat small birds/rodents, really terrify me, haha
side story - i painted my grandmothers tool shed last summer and one of these praying mantis' came by to see what i was doing. it leaped off the side of the shed and into the roller pan. it got covered in blue paint, so i took a stick and got him out. 2 minutes later he was 6 feet away from me frozen solid on top of a big blade of grass. ha ha ha
i feel sorry for what happened, but it was his fault.
they're pretty cool insects, but i'm not a fan of insects that much, they creep me out.
they sway side to side as if to look like a leaf or something in the wind. these things, being able to eat small birds/rodents, really terrify me, haha
PassionForMaryJ
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Giving a great thread a little bumpage, I hope you are doing well HOTC!!! :wave
Just read somewhere that orange (Japanese) ladybugs bite humans, so make sure if you have them naturally around the garden that you do not get bit!!
Of course I doubt a anybody would sell you the orange ones as they really are more of a pest, then beneficial..
Just read somewhere that orange (Japanese) ladybugs bite humans, so make sure if you have them naturally around the garden that you do not get bit!!
Of course I doubt a anybody would sell you the orange ones as they really are more of a pest, then beneficial..
Hey there PassionForMaryJ!
I'm doing great thanks, yourself?
Nice to see you... Safe
I'm doing great thanks, yourself?
Nice to see you... Safe
ThereIsHope
Member
ThunderBolts said:
I use to feed the one Praying Mantis (Manny the Mantis) I had in my indoor grow room some live moths last year.
I would put the moth on some needle nose pliers and work it through my dense jungle to where Manny the Mantis would day dream about Mantis porn.
As soon as he would spot the flailing moth, he would crank his head with a slight tilt, his bug eyes would go red like a mongoose and then he would go head first and perform ritual carnage. I would get a magnifying glass and a beer to watch the show. It was incredible to watch this guardian of my jungle defend against all intruders with savage instinct and zero prejudice.
Cakes
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I once found two "praying mantis" in a paved parking lot. So of course I took them home. I put them on top of my huge tomato bush and said Yea! and left them alone. The next day when I came back the entire top of my tomato plant had been eaten off. not just one shoot or a few shoots. and it was a big plant... turns out these guys were not praying mantis, they were "walking sticks" and very hungry from being in the parking lot. Walking sticks look just like praying mantis except for they are tan colored. oops.
Also there are some ladybugs that you do not want either. The vineyards in France are having a problem right now with ladybugs that pollute the grapes. The ladybugs can discharge a foul fluid from sacs in their legs when they are disturbed and that is exactly what they are doing when harvest time comes. The harvesting/jiggling messes the bugs up and so the bugs are ruining the taste and bouquet of the grapes as a result.
That was a great tip about keeping the ladies in the fridge in order to release them on a staggered schedule.
Carry on, Soldiers!
Also there are some ladybugs that you do not want either. The vineyards in France are having a problem right now with ladybugs that pollute the grapes. The ladybugs can discharge a foul fluid from sacs in their legs when they are disturbed and that is exactly what they are doing when harvest time comes. The harvesting/jiggling messes the bugs up and so the bugs are ruining the taste and bouquet of the grapes as a result.
That was a great tip about keeping the ladies in the fridge in order to release them on a staggered schedule.
Carry on, Soldiers!
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i recently watched a war raging on a hybiscus in the garden ... the new blooms had been totally infested by aphids ....
i debated spraying , but noticed a few lady bugs hanging around also ... so figured may as well watch and see what happens ...
have to say it was amazing h ow many lady bugs there ended up being there , but also many more bugs , some very similar to lady bugs , and also young mantids , looked like not long hatched , so figured the parent had layed an ooth there given the abundant food sources ..
anyhow in the end , as i noticed a few days ago , ,theres no more ahpids whatsoever , but still the odd beetle .. the plant itself is absolutely blooming now , where before the aphids were so thick each bloom was spent before it opened .....
i debated spraying , but noticed a few lady bugs hanging around also ... so figured may as well watch and see what happens ...
have to say it was amazing h ow many lady bugs there ended up being there , but also many more bugs , some very similar to lady bugs , and also young mantids , looked like not long hatched , so figured the parent had layed an ooth there given the abundant food sources ..
anyhow in the end , as i noticed a few days ago , ,theres no more ahpids whatsoever , but still the odd beetle .. the plant itself is absolutely blooming now , where before the aphids were so thick each bloom was spent before it opened .....
