Praying Mantis

The praying mantis tends to follow a general behaviour traits though most species, which is swaying slightly when on the move which imitates the wind. They also stay extremely still and will only move if disturbed, catching a prey item or just generally relocating to another perch spot.

A typical praying mantis usually spends its time camouflaged and waiting for insect prey to pass by. Other than that, they mate, drink water droplets, and lay egg-sacks that contain anywhere from 50-200 baby praying mantises. They do not harm humans.

Praying mantis are carnivors, eating almost anything living (insects - flies, aphids, grasshoppers) that get close enough to grab. Praying mantis like a warm and humid regions for a habitat, they can be found in North and South America, Europe, Southern Asia, Australia and South Africa. There are more than 2000 species, of that 20 species are native to the United States.

Praying Mantises or Praying Manti.

Or praying mantids :)

A praying mantis is classified as an insect, which means it has six appendages.

You must move very slowly towards the praying mantis you are planning on catching, the safest way of catching one is to get a glass or plastic jar and a lid in your pocket, now come toward it very slowly and then quickly cover it with the jar and put on the lid.

Remember to punch air holes into the lid and voila you have your praying mantis. But a glass or plastic jars do not make good homes for your new found praying mantis, buy a aquarium and put in grass and dirt and make it look like outside.

Now carefully put your new pet inside.

there is a big difference between the two insects stick bugs eat only plants and mostly resemble sticks most stick bugs do not have wings some species however do.mantis are strictly carnivores eating only insects most mantis have wings and are able to fly most mantis resemble leaves and some times sticks.

They definitely live in Maine. My 13 year old son has found 3 in the past month! (this is August) The last two were 3" long and he found them on the face of our garage. They will be short lived though, because they will lay their eggs and then die this fall.

none as the spider eats the praying mantis.

The Praying Mantist can be found in most part of the world that have a mild winter and plenty of vegetation. They spend most of thier time in highly vegetated areas such as gardens, forest, and such. Hope I gave you a information on where Praying Mantist live! Bye-bye!

They keep the insect count low and kill insects that harm plants

In Nepal an ancient king named Quone pellein thought they looked like they were praying when he found them in the mountains in 1675

their predators are birds, lizards, bats, snakes and turtles

Praying Mantises come in a variety of colors since there are more than 2,000 species. They are often green or brown in color, but there are many species that come in a variety of other colors and even patterns. Typically, praying mantises match the colors of their habitat. If a mantis lives on a specific flower, then it might have similar colors on its own body such as pink, yellow, and white.

Yes, a praying mantis is a carnivore, which means it eats meat. It will eat other insects, as well as lizards and even small birds, like humming birds, if the mantis is big enough.

I have had quite a few as pets, I have one right now and I have fed them fruit up until they are a few weeks old. Then I also feed them live bugs and fruit. They eat more fruit than they do insects, as far as I can see. My current pet barely eats insects at all, they like bannannas, apples, especially oranges, ect.

yes praying mantises do eat Spiders. they eat crickets and any bu thats not to big.

Very often, the female eats the male. For praying mantis males, sex is a dangerous activity, since the females tend to eat them during copulation. However, the treat of death does not damage a male's sex drive. In fact, once the male's head has been chewed off, a nervous reflex causes him to copulate more vigorously. only if a male approaches the femal extremely carefully from behind, out of reach of her grasping forlegs, and then makes a hasty retreat, can he avoide being eaten.

Insects have three ways to survive winter, some migrate, some go into a larvae stage, and some lay their eggs in thick casings which survive winter. The latter is what the mantids do. Butterflies migrate, as in the Monarch. Dragonflies lay their larvae in ponds and survive under the ice emerging in the spring. The Praying Mantis has a short life span, rarely over a year. They lay their eggs in a thick foamy looking case that survives the cold. The babies hatch in the spring and are little look alikes to the adult. The hatch ready to eat, and will even eat each other. They molt as they grow, up to five times in a life span.

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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.

While a praying mantis is eating it tends to actually make a crunching sound. Praying mantis do have small stomachs so they tend to eat small insects like bees, moths, and flies. The crunching sound is made from them eating. If praying mantis are not eating, they do not make any

The praying mantis gets red eyes sometimes when it it angry.Also nothing bad will happen to the mantis so you dont have to worry hope this helped ^_^