The Arthro-Pod gang have had a weird influx of questions from people about how they can best kill Chinese mantises. There has been a lot of concern regarding how they might be invasive and their effects on native species. Join us as we dive in to a complicated topic of parsing through native, non-native, and invasive species and highlight the biology of mantises plus the ways they normally capture our attention. With Chinese mantis, why the hate? What part might anti-Asian sentiment play in the attempts to control them? All that and more in episode 113!
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Here are some articles highlighting the controversy
https://www.brandywine.org/conservancy/blog/invasive-mantis-species
https://www.insidescience.org/news/lessons-about-love-and-invasion-americas-foreign-mantises
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