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Description:
Mantises
are insects, they have 6 legs.
Their body
has 3 parts: a head, thorax and abdomen.
Mantises have
wings.
The
mantis has a long, graceful body and a small, heart-shaped head.
Mantises
can be less than 1/2 inch long to over 6 inches long.
They are
green.
The
mantis' life cycle has 3 stages:
Stage
1: Eggs |
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Stage
2: Nymph |
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Stage
3: Adult |
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Defense:
The
dark green coloring of a mantis helps them to hide from birds and other
insects who might eat them. It's long body helps them to be better hunters.
Diet:
Mantises
eat the bodies of insects that they hunt and kill. Mantises are predators.
Habitat:
The
mantis can be found in temperate (warm and cool areas) or tropical (very
hot) climates all across the world.
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facts:
- When
the mantis is at rest, it looks like a person with arms raised
in prayer.
- Mantises
look so peaceful, but can attack with deadly force.
- The
mantises can turn it's head and upper body. It is one of the few
insects that can move its head from side to side and up and down.
- In
daylight, a mantis's eyes are usually light green or tan, but
when night falls, they turn dark brown.
- One
large egg case containing mantis eggs can have as many as 400
eggs in them!
- They
are close relatives of grasshoppers and crickets.
- There
are more than 1,500 kinds of mantises.
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