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Woodbox

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This question is mainly for veterans. Have you released ooths you bred (native only of course) only to notice that species take hold where you did not ever see them before in a certain area?

 
well yeah I recently placed one ooth in a bundled wood pile across from my house and did not think it would hatch and then checked up on it and it hatched and seen a few nymphs around the pile but not alot of them!

 
I think he means more casual encounters in the yard where the species reproduce on their own. I haven't myself, but I kinda want to buy a million chinese ooths and just set em free around the town and at the park heh heh.

 
Not really. Most places people release are not the proper kinds of habitat.

 
Thats kinda what I thought would happen. I don't think there is enough nymph food and that there are too many predators. I live in a suburban area with a LOT of trees. I have over 20 on my property alone and there are a ton of songbirds. Birds which eat bugs. I don't think mantids would last long around my house. I live in a unique area in that about a mile away, there is a large preserve which has the same exact habitat that was torn down for my neighborhood. There are hardly any birds in there. I think songbirds like suburbs. I biked around 8 miles the other day in that preserve and only saw a few cardinals, a woodpecker and one turkey. I have seen Gonatista grisea wild near where I live.



 
Where do you live to find those? Your profile says East but that is it.

 
I leave ooths outside to hatch and also place new 2nd instar outside after hatching, they are pretty good about staying in the place they hatch, at least that's what I have noticed, they don't seem to go to far unless they are threatened.

 
I leave ooths outside to hatch and also place new 2nd instar outside after hatching, they are pretty good about staying in the place they hatch, at least that's what I have noticed, they don't seem to go to far unless they are threatened.
I see exact opposite here. There were a couple natural ooths in my yard that I found and after they hatched most nymphs were long gone within a few days.

 
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