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When I was a young kid I found what I thought was a butterfly cocoon, and put it into this wire mesh sided bug cage I had. Stashed that sucker in the guest bedroom and forgot about it until weeks later when my mom found hundreds of teeny tiny bright green praying mantises all over every surface of the room. Luckily she was chill and we just caught as many as we could and took them out to the garden, but we were finding adult mantises in the house for months and months afterwards. A+ do recommend
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priznat posted:Ordered a mantis egg case from costco.ca so I'm pretty excited to let my swarm start feasting on whatever bugs are in my backyard I really want to see somebody try to eat one of these Inspector 34 posted:This mantis thing is intriguing to me. What kind of stuff do they normally feed on? Like would our humming bird friends be at risk? Or do the mantises just hang out in the grass and gobble up things down there? We don't have a shitload of bugs around here but every year I do find one or two in our warehouse at work so I guess they do have a reason for existing in this area (Portland, Or). hahaha omg I’m picturing a mantis capable of taking down a hummingbird and now I’m picturing it for sale at Costco (no they’re way too small to eat hummingbirds) Inspector 34 posted:40-400!?! I mean I think our yard could accommodate 40ish pretty well, but 400 would be overwhelming. I know that scarcity of food will take care of them somewhat but I don't want to inflict them involuntarily upon our neighbors. Maybe one of them will inflict them on us. Yeah, even without accounting for cannibalism, most of the nymphs are gonna die before they reach maturity, or soon after. A lot will become prey to other species, including birds and rodents and probably even a cat or two. Many will die just from being out in nature, they’ll die of heat stress or dehydration or wind exposure, or physical injury. They’ll smash into poo poo. And a bunch more will just leave your yard and go elsewhere. The adults can fly, after all, and they’re native to North America.
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Mar 31, 2021 14:44
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The US Amazon has the Praying Mantis Egg Cases too.. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=praying+mantis+egg+cases&ref=nb_sb_noss You can even get them with 1500 lady bugs included. https://www.amazon.com/Praying-Mant...7198548&sr=8-10 Are the lady bugs food for the Mantises? Trastion fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Mar 31, 2021 14:49
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Ok Comboomer posted:I really want to see somebody try to eat one of these One of the coolest things I ever saw was a praying mantis that was chilling on a screen door take flight across the deck, not knowing they could fly, and getting snatched out of midair by an owl.
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Mar 31, 2021 14:54
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Trastion posted:The US Amazon has the Praying Mantis Egg Cases too.. Mantises would probably eat a ladybug but ladybugs are also stone cold killers of any bugs smaller than them and extremely effective at dealing with large quantities of aphids. Bugs are pretty cool!
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Mar 31, 2021 15:14
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The Midniter posted:One of the coolest things I ever saw was a praying mantis that was chilling on a screen door take flight across the deck, not knowing they could fly, and getting snatched out of midair by an owl. I loving love owls!
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Mar 31, 2021 15:18
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Hoping for a costco 3 owl family pack
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Mar 31, 2021 15:19
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I did the ladybug thing for an aphid infestation on my roses and those dudes cleared it right up
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Mar 31, 2021 15:23
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I had an idea for my high school graduation to get 5000 ladybugs from Costco, label them 1-4999, and release all of them around the school. When they finally wrangled them all they'd freak out when they realized they couldn't find the last one
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Mar 31, 2021 15:40
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priznat posted:Hoping for a costco 3 owl family pack BRB, gonna write a kids’ book
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Mar 31, 2021 15:46
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buy the dip retards (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 31, 2021 18:23
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Lol that ham was on sale for $60 last time I was there, I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. My wife won't eat pork so it would be a solo adventure and I don't need a years supply of Jamón. Edit: $59.97 technically. StormDrain fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Mar 31, 2021 20:55
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Every single time I see someone post that thing on sale in this thread it's still full price at my costco  give me the ham!
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Mar 31, 2021 21:03
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I’ll give you the ham
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Mar 31, 2021 21:17
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I got these from Costco on my last trip and they are fuckin' delicious. Ajinomoto Vegetable Yakisoba. https://sameday.costco.com/store/items/item_80011233
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bagmonkey posted:I got these from Costco on my last trip and they are fuckin' delicious. Ajinomoto Vegetable Yakisoba. I get those, too. I like to add kimchi and a slice or two of some grilled spam.
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PokeJoe posted:Every single time I see someone post that thing on sale in this thread it's still full price at my costco Same at my store, I stopped by this afternoon and it was still 99.99.
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Apr 1, 2021 00:50
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El Jebus posted:I get those, too. I like to add kimchi and a slice or two of some grilled spam. That sounds pretty drat awesome, I may try that. Any other suggestions from the frozen section? I think I'm gonna be finally getting a chest freezer because I'm realizing the frozen goods at the 'Co are kinda dope
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Apr 1, 2021 00:50
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I WANT ALL THE HAM
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Apr 1, 2021 01:52
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Come to my Costco where the hams are $59.97 and not moving at all. There was a small mountain of them today. They also always give me 5 little mustard cups with my two hot dogs when I ask. Last time the lady had them ready to go because she saw me coming.
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Apr 1, 2021 01:58
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"aw geeze here comes that weird mustard guy again. Better get the mustard ready before he tries and ask me about the onion machine. What a creep. I wish my shift was over so I could smoke a bowl"
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Apr 1, 2021 02:47
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I actually don't trust the onion dispenser. I saw a guy clean off the part where the onions come out with his gross filthy fingers. I mean he was really rooting around in there. It damaged me. I'm fine with being the weird mustard guy though.
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Apr 1, 2021 03:05
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In what sounds like an otherwise perfect Costco they went and hosed up the single most important thing? Shameful.
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Apr 1, 2021 03:54
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fizzymercury posted:I actually don't trust the onion dispenser. I saw a guy clean off the part where the onions come out with his gross filthy fingers. I mean he was really rooting around in there. It damaged me.  I am experiencing second hand trauma
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Apr 1, 2021 04:05
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Fingering the ol' onion hole.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:18
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bagmonkey posted:That sounds pretty drat awesome, I may try that. Any other suggestions from the frozen section? I think I'm gonna be finally getting a chest freezer because I'm realizing the frozen goods at the 'Co are kinda dope All the Ajinomoto stuff is great. The chicken fried rice and shoyu ramen in the frozen section are some of my favorites.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:28
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Made carnitas for dinner. The two pack in the refrigerated aisle is really good imo
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Apr 1, 2021 04:30
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Bloodplay it again posted:All the Ajinomoto stuff is great. The chicken fried rice and shoyu ramen in the frozen section are some of my favorites. Every time I buy the chicken fried rice, it gets recalled.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:36
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Lazyhound posted:Every time I buy the chicken fried rice, it gets recalled. Unless someone ganked them from the shelves, I probably bought and ate plastic then. I only see the one recall from when I would've been eating it. That's what I get for trusting Mississippi.
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Inspector 34 posted:This mantis thing is intriguing to me. What kind of stuff do they normally feed on? Like would our humming bird friends be at risk? Or do the mantises just hang out in the grass and gobble up things down there? We don't have a shitload of bugs around here but every year I do find one or two in our warehouse at work so I guess they do have a reason for existing in this area (Portland, Or). They'll kill a little bit of everything, so buying them for no reason is probably a bad idea. They will try to kill hummingbirds and mostly not succeed, but they'll get native pollinators like moths, butterflies, and bees.
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Fartington Butts posted:Fingering the ol' onion hole.
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No Pants posted:They'll kill a little bit of everything, so buying them for no reason is probably a bad idea. They will try to kill hummingbirds and mostly not succeed, but they'll get native pollinators like moths, butterflies, and bees. I mean, can anyone give me a good reason why you'd need to bring a new species into your garden to get rid of another species? It just becomes that episodes of the Simpsons where eventually you'll end up with garden apes to control the garden snakes to control the garden rodents to control the garden mantises that get rid of your Japanese fake-lady bugs
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Apr 1, 2021 12:46
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Releasing praying mantises which are native to the area seems a better form of pest control than dousing my garden in chemicals, but you do you.
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fizzymercury posted:I actually don't trust the onion dispenser. I saw a guy clean off the part where the onions come out with his gross filthy fingers. I mean he was really rooting around in there. It damaged me. it would take much much much worse to keep me away from that onion dispenser
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Apr 1, 2021 13:42
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Enos Cabell posted:Releasing praying mantises which are native to the area seems a better form of pest control than dousing my garden in chemicals, but you do you. Exactly this. It is natural pest control and most of them will die or move on to other territory. I had an adult mantis that hung out by my deck a lot during the summer last year. One day he hitched a ride on my pantleg into the car. I noticed him when I was almost to work. He got released (removed from my car) there. I saw him for a few days then he was gone. I hope to go eat bugs around the area.
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Enos Cabell posted:Releasing praying mantises which are native to the area seems a better form of pest control than dousing my garden in chemicals, but you do you. Problem is, they're probably not the species of mantis that's actually native to your area. In CA at least, the mail order mantises have naturalized themselves alongside native species.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:17
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I see mantises all summer long on my property in nw ohio, and the egg cases cover the rose bushes in the winter. Good for mantii, here.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:34
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I got mantises last year to combat my june bug infestation and instead of killing the june bugs I just added mantises to the loving formation of assault bugs. You ever had a mantis slam into your glasses while holding a june bug in it's mandibles? Because that's my every day. It was worth it because my victory garden is pest free. Just learn how to duck and dive.
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I can’t wait to meet my new mantis friends
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bagmonkey posted:I mean, can anyone give me a good reason why you'd need to bring a new species into your garden to get rid of another species? It just becomes that episodes of the Simpsons where eventually you'll end up with garden apes to control the garden snakes to control the garden rodents to control the garden mantises that get rid of your Japanese fake-lady bugs I am a god.
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