Tenodera sinensis Range
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I just caught one recently. I live in central Alabama
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Krissim Klaw
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I don't know why anyone would want to release mantises for overgrown, wild, unkempt, weedy forest areas. I think this is why a lot of people don't run into them often. They aren't the type of mantis that thrives in manicured lawns. I found several Chinese mantises over a several year period as a kid in the area. The first female I caught was fertile and laid three ooths for me before I released her. All the ooths hatched.A lot of people over the net, know I am into mantises and will often take photos of mantises they spot outside to share with me. I would say 75% of the time the photos end up being of Chinese mantises. This species is doing very well and very wide spread, in my opinion.
geohaber
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A couple of years ago I bought two T.Sinensis oothes from a local nursery supply here in Southern Ontario, Canada. I placed them outside, I saw the nymphs hatch but never saw any full grown mantises. There must have been about two hundred or more nymphs. Southern Ontario and British Columbia are the only places in Canda where mantises can survive. There are only two species in Southern Ontario- Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa, and they not really native but were brought in decades ago for pest control. British Columbia has a small ground mantis whose name escapes me at the moment but it probably wasn't native to B.C. but came up from the US.
kmsgameboy
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I've seen them in IL and in NC but I noticed something odd this year...although the winter was mild and insects were abundant I hardly saw any mantids. I did find ONE Stagmomantis Carolina nymph early in the summer but when I went hunting in my usual spots to find Chinese mantids they all seemed strangely empty. 
