praymantis question...

So i found a pray mantis on my plant is that a good thing or a bad thing ? Should i kill or leave alone??? Ive heard they are good but i don't know.. So want to be sure.. Thanks..

it is your best friend ! also lady bugs are good. the ones with black dots red and black, any time you see a praying mantis bring him inside your flowering room . also spiders 8 legs are benifical for the plants eat the bad bugs. yesi have a few spiders big black hairy ones, and it kills bugs keeps the old lady away from smoking it , warning praying mantis will bight ! keep clear, if you don't fuck with him he wont fuck with you

Thanks bro appreciate the help.. I just made a new friend.. Lol

lucky you! one of the tigers of the insect world. i'm thinking about getting one. what's it's name?

ur a lucky guy u found a partner in crime....

Kewl! you have a new pet that will eat all the nasties off the plants! HOPE it is a egg-carrying female so you'll get more! The babies are voracious mite-eaters!!!

and cannibals their pretty savage and cool!

This is my new friend. I found smaller ones too. They eat bugs straight up. I was inspecting them and saw a small mantis attack a small gnat. It's pretty sick.

Lol thanks guys.. Havent got a name yet but ill see if i can snap a pic these coming days..

They are a special gift when they land in your garden.
Don't kill it!
Reminded me of an old saying: The belief that it is illegal to kill a praying mantis (a crime carrying a $50 fine as a punishment) has been floating around since the 1950s, and we have no idea where this bit of insectoid legal apocrypha came from. There is not (and never has been) any federal or state law proscribing the killing of praying mantises. They're certainly useful insects that are best left alone since they eat a lot of other bugs we consider pests, but they're hardly an endangered species. (If they were endangered, killing them would carry a fine far heftier than $50.) Maybe because they're considered beneficial insects and have such an unusual posture (they're prayin', fer gosh sake!) people literally thought it a crime to kill them.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/mantis2.asp