Wtf...? Have We Not Learned?

[Carlodabroads]

http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product.aspx?P...topnav=&s=1

 

Maybe I am naive, but I have only ever seen these dudes in Costa Rica, Hawaii, Indonesia, Mexico. There is something wrong about introducing foreing insects into ecosystems. Hey, even aphids do their part in some unforseen way I would assume.

 

These guys could possibly be one of the coolest creatures out there, super fun to watch. But the whole idea about buying your very own backyard full of praying mantis at Costco is kinda funny, but kinda not. Maybe I should start tying some new Terrestrial patterns for the bow!

[Carlodabroads]

Disclaimer. I am in no way affiliated with said company, or product. Just a fly fisherman looking forward to some interesting discussion.

 

Chimo

[admin]

We have these in Ontario. I found one on the wall of a Baskins and Robins. Huge inscets and super cool. I'm not sure how they would fair in an Alberta climate?

[Brownstone]

me guesses they'd have a hard time with a cold Canadian winter ..

[Teck71]

naaa they do well in south and central Ontario seen them as far north as North Bay.

 

they are cool insects though, but I don't think we need them here

[Nick0Danger]

IN JR high science we hatched a bunch than broght em home for the garden. They should die in alberta but they is one breed that is native in some parts of canada. Although i think it was an import

[j5ep00]

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.

 

 

 

looks like it would survive the winters.

we also had them in school along with stick bugs.

[Smitty]

Well:

 

I have a simple, perhaps dumb question:

 

Aren't there laws in place to prevent this, a la similar to border crossing issues? Or, put it differently, surely Costco had to get permission and fill out reams of red-tape paperwork to get approval to sell exotic insects in our country, yes?

 

Just curious.

 

Smitty

[WesG]

When I was in Penticton I saw one while sitting on the grass, they are quit possibly the coolest insect I have ever seen.

[Weedy1]

I wonder if a couple hundred of them could eat my neighbors cat?

[nickt]

i have seen a couple out here in the last few years. they are in the long grass really hard to see if youdo not look close enought.lots of em in ontario as well

[hydropsyche]

When I was a kid, I tried to kill one by stepping on it (on the sidewalk, even)....

 

..it just reared up and hissed at me.

 

They've given me the creeps ever since.

[Pythagoras]

I've seen them in Ont. and NB.

[onthefly7]

My dad has bought cases of those for my backyard here in Texas. I don't see what stops them from just going to other peoples yards.

[Brownstone]

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.

 

 

 

looks like it would survive the winters.

we also had them in school along with stick bugs.

 

 

last year somebody posted pictures of something they were trying to identify that fit this description to a tee .. may have been on the old site not sure ... large clump looked like tapioca ..

 

EDIT - BINGO!!! FOUND IT

 

 

http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?...795&hl=mass