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Crickets, flightless fruit flies, grape leaf skeletonizer larvae, junebugs, maggots, and any other insect they can get their raptor arms on.

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A Praying mantis eats basically bugs smaller than it. I saw a mantis eat a dragonfly, which is smaller. They sometimes eat other mantis's, too!

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They mostly eat other smaller bugs, like flies, dragonflies, and butterflies.

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they will eat eachother/other nymphs

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