Dataset for: Diets of two non-native praying mantids (Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa) show consumption of arthropods across all ecological roles

These data are from a comparative diet analysis which reveals many ecological guilds are consumed by nonnative mantids in old-field ecosystems. We observed low diet overlap between mantid species and overall high diet variability across samples. , Mantids were collected in the field. We dissected their gut contents and used metabarcoding approaches to identify major diet components.,