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How are praying mantises useful?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Newly hatched Praying Mantises are just miniature adults and eat aphids and other small insects that are harmful in the garden. As they grow they eat larger and larger insects. They are indiscriminate eaters and even eat beneficial insects (The largest Praying Mantises can eat small mammals and birds). So I guess they are most useful when very small, but you don't get small ones without the big ones.

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13y ago

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