Many moons ago I made the HUGE mistake of putting a couple of those egg cases in my greenhouse.
It was a mistake for two reasons: When you went into the greenhouse, hundreds of the babies would immediately jump on you. I'm not skittish about bugs, but come on. That's just "too much."
Actually the worst part - and I feel this applies to all pest-predatory insects - if you release a large population into a confined space, they run out of food really fast, so you either have to feed them, or they will starve to death. In this case, I just left the door open for a while and released them.
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