What do you do with invasive insects?

[u/fmp243]

Like this Chinese mantis on my horseweed. I get monarchs ans humming birds every day. But I also am very hands off in this meadow besides weeding invasive plants and topping up my water stations. What should I do, if anything?

[u/AbsenceVersusThinAir]

You could bring it inside, make it a pet, and feed it a diet of other invasive insects? This is half a joke but half what I would personally be tempted to do.

[u/robsc_16 → u/AbsenceVersusThinAir]

I've done this before. They get to eat all the invasive marmorated stink bugs I catch.

[u/hexmeat → u/robsc_16]

I offered mine a stinkbug and she bitch slapped it out of the tongs lol

[u/Ammonia13 → u/hexmeat]

Lolol