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Invasive species of Mantodea
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<blockquote data-quote="Ranitomeya" data-source="post: 289298" data-attributes="member: 6796"><p>They consume large numbers of prey, but are hardly efficient at biological control since they end up controlling their own population density through their non-specific appetites and thus cannot be encountered in numbers high enough for them to be proficient pest control. In addition, they are not effective biological control against any species as they change their targets as they molt due to size and because they do not target specific species.</p><p></p><p>They're truthfully very poor at targetted biological control, and could be considered more as ecological threats as they're most likely to feed on important pollinators such as native bees than they are to feed on pests such as slower-moving caterpillars and small true bugs such as mealybugs and aphids which are some of the more devastating pests. We'd be better off using parasitic wasps and flies that are known to target specific species and groups of invertebrates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ranitomeya, post: 289298, member: 6796"] They consume large numbers of prey, but are hardly efficient at biological control since they end up controlling their own population density through their non-specific appetites and thus cannot be encountered in numbers high enough for them to be proficient pest control. In addition, they are not effective biological control against any species as they change their targets as they molt due to size and because they do not target specific species. They're truthfully very poor at targetted biological control, and could be considered more as ecological threats as they're most likely to feed on important pollinators such as native bees than they are to feed on pests such as slower-moving caterpillars and small true bugs such as mealybugs and aphids which are some of the more devastating pests. We'd be better off using parasitic wasps and flies that are known to target specific species and groups of invertebrates. [/QUOTE]
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