Well I know of at least two cases where bright sparks decided to hatch chinese mantis OUTSIDE to as a pest control measure.
Like it or not some people just don't think of the consequences. And non-native pets have caused major environmental problems including certain turtle species and indian stick insects.

dammit, so its illeagel to release like 300 indian sticks on a bramble bush...nobody tell... they have just started laying aswell, and hatching... just joking! although i am thinking of it!

i know someone let 2 adult male chinse mantids free in his garden..wont matter there not going to breed.

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i let loose about 10 indian stick insects in a field lol

THE COLLECTION
Sphodromantis lineola
Creobroter elongata
Phyllocrania paradoxa
Tenodera Aridifola Sinesis
Rhombodera basilis
pseudempusa pinnapavonis
Hymenopus coronatus
hierodula membranacea

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i have accidentally freed a few stickies into some ivy outside my house! (well they got out themselves while i was cleaning their tank), i think i got most of them back and i have found a few in spider webs.... am i doomed to be locked up???

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The collection:

Scorpions:
1.1.0 Heterometrus spinifer
0.1.0 Hadrurus arizonensis
0.0.1 Heterometrus swammerdami
0.1.0 Hadogenes paucidens
0.0.1 Smeringurus mesaensis

Tarantulas:
0.0.4 Brachypelma smithi
0.0.1 Brachypelma emilia
0.0.5 Psalmopoeus cambridgei
0.1.0 Grammostola rosea

Mantids:
1.1.0 Pseudempusa pinnapavonis
0.2.0 Hierodula unimaculata
0.0.2 chinese mantis ooths

Other:
0.0.1 Scolopendra subspinipes
some hissing cockroaches.... etc... etc....

I think its good to have some laws on it.
if some ooths were to hatch near a endangerd spices
like the bees in some greenland near me it could kill them off
some people have tryed to kill them by starting a fire i think theres people that would find it funny to kill them
the bees are protected now as there are only known in 3 places in the uk where they can be found

I doubt Mantises could live in our climate, not even the hardy ones?. In a local wood's to me, there is a colony of green anoles!! :O. They get through the winter

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are you sure they are not sand lizards? they are green and survive our winter, there is no chance a green anole would survive winter up here

It wouldn't surprise me if Anolis carolinensis could survive over here in the uk as they hibernate and or brumate in there natural habitat.
There are a few species of temperate mantids and stick insects probably more ? that could survive the uk weather especially as the climate seems to be changing and getting warmer here!
We already have bull/marsh frogs,Alpine newt, wall/green lizards, Terrapins, corn/king snakes, laboratory sticks, carp, catfish, zander,Feral goat, Sika deer, Fallow deer, Feral cat, Fat dormouse, Chinese Water Deer, Chinese muntjac, Feral ferret, American mink, Rabbit, Brown rat, Black rat, Grey squirrel, Wild boar, New Zealand flatworm, Australian flatworm, Green spruce aphid, Stripped ladybird, Longhorn beetle, a broad-nosed weevil, another ladybird, another Longhorn beetle etc etc etc it may seem like a mantis species or anything else for that matter wont do much/any harm but they do, not only that but a lot of exotics get let go out of shear disregard and the poor things cant survive here full stop or are released at the wrong time and starve or freeze to death. All very irresponsible and will not help the cause of exotic or any other pet or small animal keepers.

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Nah deffiently Green Anoles, i've kept and bred them. They do look really healthy though, its a big change from the common anoles in the pet trade, alot more vibrant colours and their dewlaps are really nice. It's known that the European Tree Frog is making its way over here. It's suprising as of what species are actually found her now.

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