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Introduce praying mantis (Tenodera chinensis) to your garden for an effective and natural pest control solution. These remarkable predators are voracious eaters, targeting a wide variety of unwanted pests, including flies, grass hoppers, moths, mosquitoes, and caterpillars. Each egg case produces 100-200 baby mantises, ensuring a robust defense against larger plant pests. Enjoy the benefits of these beneficial insects while reducing your reliance on chemical pesticides!
Praying Mantis are a great method of natural pest control for many unwanted pests. They range in color from pea green to brown, beige and even cream colored. They are a predatory carnivore and mainly eat other insects such as grass hoppers, flies, moths, mosquitoes, cutworms and other plant eating pests. The juvenile mantises will hatch at the same time as their prey, making it easier for the mantis to control the pest insect populations as they all grow. As with any natural pest controls, preemptive application provides the most benefit to the health of your garden. They Mantis egg case will generally hatch between the months of April or May in the continental United States.
Eliminate Larger Plant Pests
One egg case will produce 100-200 baby mantises. This is typically enough the average suburban yard.
For best results, place your praying mantis egg case outdoors. Hang them in a tree or place in the forks of a tree branch or shrub . Mantis typically hatch when temperatures are sufficiently warm for hatching. We do not recommend indoor hatching, they should be hatched outdoors.
All beneficial insects are shipped on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays each week (unless there is a delay due to weather or UPS shipping holiday delays.) Due to the unpredictable temperatures at ship- ping warehouses, they can NOT be shipped over the weekend. Any orders received after 12:00 pm PST will be shipped on the next shipping day.
