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Can paying mantis eat leaves

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No, they are carnivores.

A praying mantis eats living insects that it captures in its spined front legs.

They eat all forms of insects, but will also eat lizards, snakes and even small birds and rodents if they can.

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