Chinese Mantid
Tenodera aridifolia
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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:
Deer, Arkansas
Reseda, California
San Jose, California
Palm Coast, Florida
Cornelia, Georgia
Cary, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Itasca, Illinois
Park Forest, Illinois
Michigan City, Indiana
Goshen, Kentucky
Detroit, Michigan
Croton On Hudson, New York
Greensboro, North Carolina
Kannapolis, North Carolina
Glouster, Ohio
Alexandria, Pennsylvania
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Liberty Hill, Texas
Keller, Virginia
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With a little luck I'll see them mating and find an egg sack or two, that would complete the cycle and please me to no end.
They are cannibals so when I found one in a dangerous location, I would place it safely distant from others. I noticed that the young ones prefer day lily beds. Older ones like late blooming plants like sedum, marigolds and dahlias. They just sit and wait for their next meal. Grasshoppers, bees, dragonflies almost anything except for stink bugs and large wasps.
Andy P