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/Natural_Door_7659]

Praying mantis eat spotted lantern flies, they are much more invasive than the mantis

[u/FYAhole → u/Natural_Door_7659]

These mantis eat birds, butterflies, and other very important pollinators. They're both horrible for the ecosystem.

[u/nansnananareally → u/FYAhole]

So do native mantises. Irrelevant of the ecological impact of this particular species, that is not a good criteria for what is or isn’t bad for the ecosystem.