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Costco, HD - Praying Mantis - Fight mosquitoes, Flies, wasps in a natural way

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[Costco] Costco, HD - Praying Mantis - Fight mosquitoes, Flies, wasps in a natural way

Copying my old post since Praying Mantis are on sale again

This year even better deal is available from Home depot - only $12.99 for the egg case + shipping

Info from HD
$12.99
ONLINE INVENTORY 487 available
ESTIMATED DELIVERY TIME:
3 TO 6 DAYS
FREE RETURNS

My own comment - I bought them last year and bought them again this year! They are real fun to watch (especially when they grow big towards September), and they never bite people. Unlike any other insect you can easily put it on your hand and it will stay still for some time.

Please : no Simpson jokes (they can be found in previous threads)!


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Praying Mantis Natural
Insect Control Egg Case


Costco Item # 129014
Shipping & Handling included
$19.99

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An excellent general predator! Praying mantis consumes aphids, beetles, flies, mosquitos, moths, caterpillars and any insect they can catch. Praying mantis, an insect with an innate killer attitude, is a great garden predator. One egg case hatches many tiny babies that quickly disperse throughout your garden. Your egg case contains approximately 40 to 400 eggs.



Mating occurs in early fall and another egg case will be laid that will hatch the following summer. The egg case is laid as a foam that hardens into a spongy almost indestructible mass, usually laid attached to a shrub, weed, grass, etc., a few feet off the ground. The egg mass survives freezing, thawing, rain and all the elements to hatch in the early summer to start the cycle again.



Click here to learn more about Praying Mantis.



Features:

Hatching will occur by June
Egg case contains 40 to 400 young mantis
Most often green but sometimes brown
Very territorial, will create a home where hatched
Feeds on anything they can catch
Late summer mating season

How to apply

Place egg case outside in the spring attaching the egg case using the included mesh bag in a plant, shrub or tree 1 to 1.5 m (3 to 5 ft.) above ground, or to observe, place in sealable white paper bag and place inside in south facing window checking daily. Tiny mantis will hatch in 1 to 8 weeks and all eggs will hatch within 1 to 2 hours, leaving the egg case visibly unchanged. Release tiny mantis immediately outside onto plants after the hatching occurs. They will quickly disperse throughout your yard to mature and lay eggs, continuing your population next season.

How much do I need?

One egg case covers approximately 90 sq. m (1000 sq. ft.)

Specifications:

Egg case dimensions (dia.):
2.54 cm (1 in.)

Shipping & Terms

Standard shipping is via UPS Ground. The estimated delivery time will be approximately 7 - 10 business days from the time of order.

Costco.ca offers merchandise which complements our warehouse product selection. Therefore, most items available on our web site are unique to costco.ca.

Costco.ca products can be returned to any of our more than 500 Costco warehouses worldwide.
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So if I buy these now how do I store them for next year? Or could I still use it for this year?
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OilersDude wrote: So if I buy these now how do I store them for next year? Or could I still use it for this year?
You definitely can use them this year. They keep them in the cold storage - so they will hatch only after you receive them and attach egg cases to the plants
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great thanks, how do i get the free shipping with HD though? It's charging me $7.00 shipping
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Jun 13, 2007
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Edmonton
Once the preying mantis' kill the mosquitoes does Costco sell bats or snakes to help me control their population
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Kitchener
My dad has a huge wasp problem, they are making nests under the siding at the 2nd floor level. I wonder if these mantis' could even help that?
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Mantis is prone to parasitic infection from horsehair worms, organisms that live inside a mantis abdomen and manipulate host mantis into "drowning" itself in water in order to help with their maturation/egg-laying process.
These worms cannot be killed even if you boil them, or grind them with rocks... while they aren't harmful to humans, they are pretty disgusting and annoying.
Just something to consider if you plan on using this approach to fight against other annoying bugs.

http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/hairwor ... ing-mantis
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OilersDude wrote: great thanks, how do i get the free shipping with HD though? It's charging me $7.00 shipping
This
Will buy with free shipping


Last year a raccoon or something ate the entire egg sac before any hatched, hopefully I can avoid that this year :facepalm:
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Tried this one year. Not entirely sure that they hatched, and didn't really do anything for the bugs. I think the birds may have had a little fun, though. Some have talked about using an old aquarium and hatching these guys indoors, then letting them loose once grown a little.
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yangxu wrote: Mantis is prone to parasitic infection from horsehair worms, organisms that live inside a mantis abdomen and manipulate host mantis into "drowning" itself in water in order to help with their maturation/egg-laying process.
These worms cannot be killed even if you boil them, or grind them with rocks... while they aren't harmful to humans, they are pretty disgusting and annoying.
Just something to consider if you plan on using this approach to fight against other annoying bugs.

http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/hairwor ... ing-mantis
Pretty happy to hear that these disgusting things aren't harmful to humans.

These things are hollywood horror movie disgusting.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t778djMJiv8
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how do you knnow when they have hatched from the egg? I bought some from Home Depot about a month ago.....and looking at the egg, I can't tell if anything has hatched. is it possible I got a dead egg?
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I got one from home depot almost a month ago and it didn't hatch as I kept it in the white bag to monitor it. I have since called for them to ship me another one. Hope the new one hatches.

I was really looking forward to seeing these this year....
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This thread is full of awesome!
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I wonder how many of them will survive the lawnmower...
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Hmm.. I wonder if these will control the aphids that are in my honey locust tree?
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Do these eat plants/leaves? Was wondering as my backyard has flowers and vegetables growing.
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Brampton
I just ordered from HD. Paid $5.12 for shipping. How do you get free shipping?

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