Anyone else has any experience with Sia Ferox?

[divingbeetleman]

It is unlikely that exotic, predatory katydids will be deregulated. Exotic mantids have almost no chance, even for species that do not prey upon pollinators. The slight chance that mantids could have would be that many species leave their oothecae on branches that would leave a tropical species fairly exposed to cold temperatures. Orthoptera usually insert their eggs somewhere that would be much more insulated, and this could give them more chance of surviving than a mantis. That is the main reason I want to do the temperature measurements under logs to figure out exactly how much of an advantage organic matter gives (particularly for exotic beetle deregulation, but could support orthopterans).

Now, I have an alternative: Neobarrettia spinosa. This happens to be the first organism I ever asked the USDA about, and they said no permits are required within the Continental US. If we can get more people breeding this species in captivity, then we have a native that rivals some of the beautiful foreign species.

That is indeed the reason they give for many species, such as beetles, but are the unregulated arachnids magically immune to carrying something in the same manner? They even deregulated the three Goliathus species, yet I do not think there is any data suggesting they do not carry pathogens. Moreover, as they are eating insects, I would imagine they are exposed to plenty of parasites and pathogens.

Late bump but I was wondering what the chances of getting predatory beetles and hemipterans deregulated.
Platymeris and psytalla are pure carnivores that are ground dwelling likely specializing on beetles so they are unlikely to hurt pollinators.
Ditto for the large predatory beetles like Pasimachus, Manticora, Mouhotia, and Anthia.
Even more so for water dwelling inverts like Lethocerus, Dysticus, and Cybister.