My new grow partner

jrainman

jrainman

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011.jpg005.jpgfound a new partner that I think will be tending to the insects in my closet grow , I noticed my new partner about a week ago , do you thing I should keep er ,I think it will have a positive effect ,What do you all think. sorry for the HPS
 
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new2420grow

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Dude, is that a grasshopper? If so, I'd say get him outta there. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure grasshoppers eat leaves.
 
jrainman

jrainman

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LOL Grasshopper ,don't think so .FYI that my friend is a Praying Mantis , they don't eat plant matter ,there diet consists of bugs and only bugs they shred there pray piece by piece starting with there prays head. they are the T rex of there world , when large enough they have been known to eat scorpions .
 
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new2420grow

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jrainman said:
LOL Grasshopper ,don't think so .FYI that my friend is a Praying Mantis , they don't eat plant matter ,there diet consists of bugs and only bugs they shred there pray piece by piece starting with there prays head. they are the T rex of there world , when large enough they have been known to eat scorpions .
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If they can eat a scorpion, imagine what they could do to a plant!!!! LOL j/k. I don't know if a praying mantis would hurt a plant or not. As far as I know, they are meat eaters all the way, like you just said. Just don't let 'er spit in your eye! GL
 
spartacus420

spartacus420

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Yeah definatley a praying mantis...

Did you know its illegal to kill praying mantis's

I'd say let her/him go outside thats where it belongs
 
shaun2000

shaun2000

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Id leave him, PERFECT. Pretty sure they will eat mites when they are youger, but he will most likely leave when he gets bigger and needs something else.
 
Reigning

Reigning

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picture is kind of hard to tell, from the angle it looks like a grasshopper because I cant see the long prothorax that a mantis has.
 
shaun2000

shaun2000

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Looking again, your right, its a grasshopper. notice the back legs are springs, Mantis dont have them. Kill it.
 
greenlikemoney

greenlikemoney

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I'd be more worried about what looks to be a seed pod. Maybe i'm just paranoid but that looks like a seed pod ( IE your girl got pollinated ) to me.
 
smokegreenshlt

smokegreenshlt

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Do grown up mantises even eat mites? I know the babies do but I think the grown ups move on to bigger n better prey, besides that...it ain't even a mantis lol
 
grasscropper

grasscropper

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Awww Miss Mantis. Very nice. Let her be. You'll be pest free for the duration. I'd get a critter keeper and move her from to grow then. Let her go outside in spring.
 
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