Praying Mantis for Orchids Outside in Summer?

[Optimist]

I love mantis'. I would think that perhaps 98% of the newborn babies would end up as bird food, with a very small number living to adulthood to mate. I believe this is why insects, fish and other animals have hundreds of babies. The infant mortality is huge. So, in effect, a person does not really need to worry about whether a large population of mantis' will have enough food lifelong in their landscapes. I suppose if you had a greenhouse, you might get better survival rate.

And of course, in order to raise the survival rate yourself, you would need to stop using insecticides of all kinds around your plants.

Darwin should have called "survival of the fittest" survival of the luckiest.