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Praying Mantis ** By Martin Hoang **



Introduction: A Praying Mantis is a garden hunter. Praying Mantises are not poisonous. They belong to the family Mantodea. Praying Mantises can camouflage in amongst the leaves there approximately 2,200 species in 15 families.

Anatomy: They have a head, thorax and abdomen. They can grow up to 5 to 13cm long or 2 to 5 inches long. Each compound eye has at least 10,000 small eyes in it. They have a short wing and long wing. The female’s wings are much smaller than the males. Their heads are very flexible. They can almost turn 300°. They are called Praying Mantis because their forelegs look like there’re praying when they eat their prey.



Habitat: Praying Mantises live in warm places everywhere around the world, in gardens. They also live in rainforest in the branches of trees, so that they can camouflage.

Feed and Predators:

Praying Mantises eat plants, tree frogs, grasshoppers, spiders and crickets. A female praying mantis likes to eat male praying mantis. They try to avoid predators like bats and birds. But bats eat them because there’re not fast enough.

Praying mantises eat plants, tree frogs, grasshoppers and crickets. A female Mantis would eat the male praying mantis. Then they would be eaten by a bird or bat.

Reproduction: The female or male, mate then they start to breed. They make an egg case to keep them warm and safe. The female starts to die, after laying the eggs. When the female lay an egg case stuck to a branch. They camouflage except in winter.

Life Cycle:

The mantis larvae hatch from the egg case and they start to eat flies. They start to become Nymphs. Then they get bigger and bigger and start to eat bigger insects. They become adults and breed. ** o **

Food Chain:

Frog

Did You Know?
 * That females eat males?
 * Their heads can almost turn 300°?
 * The females lay its eggs and then they die?
 * Males can still breed with other females without their head or brain?